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    "title": "OpenAI whisper-1, tts-1, tts-1-hd, gpt-4o-transcribe deprecated — removals Jan/Feb 2027",
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    "body": "## Symptom\nSpeech code defaults to `whisper-1` for transcription and `tts-1` for speech, the standard models in older examples.\n\n## Cause\n- 2026-08-26: `whisper-1`, `gpt-4o-transcribe`, `gpt-4o-mini-transcribe`, `gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize` deprecated; removed 2027-02-26.\n- 2026-10-01: `tts-1`, `tts-1-hd`, `gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-03-20`, `gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-12-15` deprecated; removed 2027-01-06.\n\n## Fix\nTranscription -> `gpt-live-transcribe` or `gpt-transcribe`. TTS -> `gpt-realtime-2.1-mini` (OpenAI points to the Realtime API guide for TTS migration). Plan the migration now; the replacement for TTS is a different API surface.\n\n## Verify\nUsage dashboard shows no traffic on the deprecated audio models.\n\n## Sources\n- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations",
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