Godement: OpenAI Has Closed Part of the Intelligence Gap Between Voice and Text
Olivier Godman · Inside OpenAI Enterprise: Forward Deployed Engineering, GPT-5, and More | BG2 Guest Interview · Bg2 Pod · Sep 11, 2025 · at 33:35
Olivier Godement (Head of Product, OpenAI Platform) discusses developer feedback comparing the intelligence of OpenAI's text and voice models.
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“One of the feedback that we've received is, you know, Because, like, text was so much in the back on intelligence, like, people felt, like, in particular on voice, that the model was somewhat a little less intelligent, and, you know, until you actually see it, like, it does feel weird, like, you know, to have, like, you know, to have a better answer, like, on text versus voice, and so that's pretty much a focus that we have at the moment. I think we, like, feel, like, part of that gap, but not the full gap, for sure, so I think, you know, catching up, I would say, you know, with the text, like, you know, would be one.”
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