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tts-1-hd

Stops working (in 76 days)

Calls to the model tts-1-hd on OpenAI stop working on January 6, 2027.

What to use instead of tts-1-hd

Move to gpt-realtime-2.1-mini, recommended by OpenAI.

gpt-realtime-2.1-mini is not served on /v1/audio/speech: it runs only on the Realtime API (/v1/realtime, over WebRTC or WebSocket). Audio comes back as base64 chunks in response.output_audio.delta events (for example audio/pcm at 24 kHz), not as an mp3 or wav response body.

Facts

API
OpenAI api.openai.com
Model
tts-1-hd
Kind
Model retirement
Takes effect
January 6, 2027
Calls after that day
Fail
Source
Deprecations page
Last updated

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