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Building Voice Agents with gpt-realtime-2.1
A practical guide to building production voice agents with gpt-realtime-2.1: transport choice, the reasoning-latency tradeoff, tool calling, and pricing.
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A practical guide to building production voice agents with gpt-realtime-2.1: transport choice, the reasoning-latency tradeoff, tool calling, and pricing.
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