Gpt-realtime now shows "Deprecated" — impact on deterministic voice agent architectures. Please do not deprecate

123 · Community Openai · July 21, 2026, 6:51 p.m.
Summary
The author discusses the impact of the deprecation of the 'gpt-realtime' model on their B2B voice-driven planning SaaS, highlighting performance metrics and posing questions to the community about the reliability of newer models which prioritize reasoning over deterministic instruction following.