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Release2026-08-05

OpenAI published Birding Pal, an MIT-licensed demonstration project on GitHub combining a plush bird toy with a custom Bluetooth controller and a mobile app using the OpenAI Realtime API for voice interaction. Pressing force-sensitive resistors on the plush starts or stops a voice session or records ambient audio, which can be sent to an optional BirdNET-compatible endpoint with location and week-of-year metadata to return species candidates; confirmed sightings are saved to a personal bird book. The prototype hardware list includes an Adafruit QT Py ESP32-S3 (no PSRAM), a DFRobot BT401 Bluetooth module, a NeoPixel status LED, LiPo battery, microphone, amplifier and speaker, with firmware hosting a local Wi-Fi dashboard for debugging and threshold tuning. The repository notes that GPT-Live-1 is not yet available on the OpenAI API platform and uses gpt-realtime instead.

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