Microsoft has pushed a major real‑time audio milestone into the Azure stack: gpt‑realtime, a speech‑to‑speech (S2S) model optimized for low‑latency, natural‑sounding conversational agents, is now generally available on Azure AI Foundry and accessible through the Real‑time API for developers and...
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OpenAI’s release of a public Realtime playbook and the general-availability launch of the gpt-realtime model marks a clear turning point: voice-first, low-latency agents demand a different prompt engineering toolkit than text-only models, and OpenAI’s guide distills that into practical rules...