Earlier this year, Sam Altman was confronted directly with a video from what has become a viral trend: people showing off the significant shortcomings of OpenAI’s voice model . It seems he didn’t particularly enjoy that, because OpenAI is taking steps to save Altman from future embarrassment. On Thursday, the company announced three new voice models meant to open up the technology to developers who might be able to do groundbreaking things like program a functional timer . Per the company, it is releasing GPT-Realtime-2 , its first voice model with “GPT-5-class reasoning” that can allegedly handle difficult prompts and better maintain conversations than its predecessors. It also introduced GPT-Realtime-Translate, which it claims can translate speech from more than 70 input languages into 13 output languages while “keeping pace with the speaker.” The final model, GPT-Realtime-Whisper, is meant for live speech-to-text transcription.…