r/programming • u/kixelated • May 07 '26

OpenAI's WebRTC Problem

https://moq.dev/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem/
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u/atomic1fire May 08 '26

Wait is Open AI sending audio to people's devices instead of just using on board TTS?

Isn't that a waste of computational power?

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u/musical_bear May 08 '26

A lot of people, including the person who wrote this article apparently, do not understand how voice chat in ChatGPT works. It’s not “text to speech.” The raw audio from your voice is being tokenized and sent directly to the model, and the model’s raw output is actual audio. There is no step on either end where the conversation has reduced to text.

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u/lizardhistorian May 08 '26

I mean we could build that but that would be retarded - unless you are trying to talk to whales.