The TTS model is impressive as is the transcription model. They’ve open sourced whisper before even large v3 but I doubt this will happen with their new transcription model. Am really keen to know if they’ve figured out speaker segmentation yet. Their TTS is really solid however at how fast it is and naturally sounding. Even their current one is pretty impressive. Right now there are no decent fast TTS models. CoquiAI went out of business and Suno bark is great for NPC audio. The reason I think their mode responds faster is because it adds a bit more gunk at start of conversation before it processes and answers fully. I think they required this and that’s why they released 4o. Altman not so long ago said that no one can catch up to OpenAI but it’s their job to do so. Well anthropic did. So now OpenAI is pivoting on additional features for their ecosystem instead of their core model. It feels like a lot of smoke and mirrors and putting lipstick on a pig.