OpenAI Will Retire Advanced and Standard Voice on December 11
We’re retiring Advanced and Standard voice from ChatGPT Voice on December 11, 2026. In July, we introduced GPT-Live, our latest voice model that combines natural conversation with frontier intelligence. Since then, voice usage has nearly doubled, and virtually all people using voice in ChatGPT now use GPT-Live. This change will allow us to simplify the voice experience and focus on improving GPT-Live. We've learned a lot from how people used both Advanced and Standard voice, and we're bringing those learnings into GPT-Live as we continue to improve areas like the depth and detail of responses, maintaining continuity across conversations, and better personalization. Our ultimate goal is to make voice a seamless part of the ChatGPT experience. Live video and screen-sharing will continue to be powered by Advanced voice until GPT-Live has this capability.
Context
People who still use the older ChatGPT voice modes will be moved to GPT Live in a month, while live video and screen sharing stay on Advanced voice for now.
OpenAI Newsroom posted that Advanced and Standard voice will be retired from ChatGPT Voice on December 11, 2026, and that GPT Live will take over. The post said voice usage has nearly doubled since GPT Live launched in July, and that virtually all people using voice in ChatGPT now use GPT Live. OpenAI linked to a Help Center article with the same details.
Deep dive
OpenAI Newsroom posted that Advanced and Standard voice will be retired from ChatGPT Voice on December 11, 2026. The post said that in July OpenAI introduced GPT Live, its latest voice model, that voice usage has nearly doubled since then, and that virtually all people using voice in ChatGPT now use GPT Live. OpenAI said the change will let it simplify the voice experience and focus on improving GPT Live, including the depth and detail of responses, continuity across conversations, and personalization. Live video and screen sharing will continue to be powered by Advanced voice until GPT Live has that capability.
The linked Help Center article repeats those points and adds a timeline. On November 10, 2026, users are notified about the retirement. During the transition, users can keep using Advanced or Standard voice. On December 11, 2026, those modes will no longer be available in the voice model picker, and users who had selected them will be defaulted to Live voice. Conversations remain in ChatGPT history and can be continued in text or voice.
The Help Center also describes the three modes. It says Live voice is powered by GPT Live, a full duplex voice model that can listen and speak at the same time and can hand complex questions to frontier text models. Advanced voice is described as a previous turn based model that processed audio natively but waited for the user to stop speaking. Standard voice is described as a chain of speech to text, a language model, and text to speech. The article says voice with custom GPTs will continue using Advanced voice until the December 11 retirement.
What to expect next
The date to watch is December 11, when Advanced and Standard voice leave the picker and remaining users are moved to Live voice. Until GPT Live supports live video and screen sharing, those features will stay on Advanced voice, so that gap is the main open product question. Watch also for how custom GPT voice is handled once Advanced voice is retired, which the Help Center already flags. User reaction to the move, especially from people who preferred the older style, will show up first in the weeks before the cutoff.