Super cool! Didn't realize OpenAI is just using LiveKit.

Does the pricing breakdown to be the same as having a OpenAI Advanced Voice socket open the whole time? It's like $9/hr!

It would be theoretically cheaper to use this without keeping the advanced voice socket open the whole time and just use the GPT4o streaming service [1] for whenever inference is needed (pay per token) and use livekits other components to do the rest (TTS, VAD etc.).

What's the trade off here?

[1]: https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/streaming