Repeat phrase instructions broken in gpt-realtime-1.5
OpenAI Developer Community
April 17, 2026
When sending a response to prompt the system to repeat a phrase, it ignores the instruction.
It seems as if the response is received as a user response rather than a system response.
When I revert the model to gpt-realtime, it works fine.
My findings so far after extensively testing both:
gpt-realtime has more consistent behavior (script adherence, no random pronunciation anomalies, etc)
gpt-realtime-1.5 has better tool calling.
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