OpenAI started rolling out GPT-Live-1.1 in ChatGPT Voice on 15 October 2026, for all users. It adds 13 voices for French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mexican Spanish and English, and more natural accents. Dutch is not among the languages OpenAI names, so test it in Dutch before your team relies on it.
Six languages get new voices, and Dutch is not one of them
GPT-Live is the voice model OpenAI put into ChatGPT in July. It listens while it talks, so you can interrupt it. Harder questions go to a stronger model in the background while the conversation goes on.
Version 1.1 is about how that sounds. OpenAI added voices for French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean and Mexican Spanish, plus an English voice called Bubbie. Korean gets two of them, Hanul and Haetsal, the Korean outlet Digital Today reported. OpenAI says the model also does better in “many other non-English languages”, but it publishes no list and no test results.
That leaves Dutch speakers guessing. At the July launch, OpenAI warned that some languages could get a non-native accent or gaps in fluency. Neither announcement names Dutch. You can still talk to ChatGPT in Dutch, but OpenAI does not say whether it sounds any better.
The second change is easiest to hear when ChatGPT looks something up. GPT-Live-1 tended to repeat “checking” while it waited for a search. Version 1.1 uses a wider range of short phrases. OpenAI also says the handover to the background model feels more natural and that the voice follows instructions better, again without numbers.
The update arrives on the web, iOS and Android without any action on your part. A few settings decide what you get:
- Pick a voice under Settings > Voice > Voice. The voices on offer depend on your region and account.
- Set the language you speak most under Settings > Voice > Language. This helps ChatGPT understand you.
- Switch between Live, Advanced and Standard under Settings > Voice. Standard writes out your speech first and answers turn by turn.
Free and Go accounts get Quip, a smaller version of the model
OpenAI ships two versions. Plus, Pro and Business users get GPT-Live-1.1. Free and Go users get GPT-Live-1.1 Quip, a smaller model. OpenAI does not say how much quality the smaller model gives up.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Voice help page lists these limits per rolling 24 hours:
- Free: limited access to Quip, and the limit may change
- Go: 3 hours with Quip
- Plus: 3 hours with GPT-Live-1.1
- Business: 3 hours on Standard or 15 hours on Premium, then 1.25 credits per minute
- Pro: 15 hours on the $100 plan, unlimited on the $200 plan
For organisations, the same help page covers data and control. Audio from Live calls is stored with the chat for 30 days, and archiving a chat does not delete it. OpenAI only trains on that audio when a user opts in under Data Controls. In Business and Enterprise, Voice also depends on workspace settings. So check which options your admin has switched on, and treat a voice chat like any other chat with company data.
Is GPT-Live-1.1 available in the API?
Not yet. OpenAI says version 1.1 is coming soon to the API, without a date. Developers have been able to use GPT-Live-1 there since 10 September, at $0.05 per minute for the voice layer. The model that does the thinking behind it is billed separately.
A voice assistant you build today therefore runs on version 1, without the voices and accents that reached ChatGPT this week.
A Dutch test call tells you more than OpenAI’s language list
Voice pays off where people cannot type: technicians on site, drivers, staff on a warehouse floor. GPT-Live-1.1 brings that closer, because it sounds less mechanical while it searches. But better French or Korean says little about Dutch place names, product codes or your own jargon.
At DataNorth we would start small. Before you roll Voice out to a team, run a handful of Dutch test calls with the words your people actually use. Listen to the answers, not just the transcript. ChatGPT Voice is a tool for your own staff. For customer contact you need the API, so wait until 1.1 arrives there and run the same Dutch test.
For more information, visit the official announcement of GPT-Live-1.1 in the ChatGPT release notes.
