GPT-Live-1 does full-duplex listening and speaking in one model; open-source demo with LiveAvatar

HeyGen · x · 2026-09-11

TryLiveAvatar, a launch partner for OpenAI's GPT-Live-1, built and open-sourced a full demo. GPT-Live-1 is a single model that listens and speaks simultaneously — no STT→LLM→TTS chain and no brittle handoffs. It handles interruptions, background noise and mid-sentence changes of mind, offloading deeper reasoning to a backend model while the conversation keeps flowing. Paired with LiveAvatar's real-time avatars, full-duplex audio plus a live face is claimed to be the closest AI gets to talking to a person.

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