Migrate OpenAI realtime, audio, and transcription API calls off deprecated legacy models before shutdown

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Documented steps

  1. Deprecation announced 2026-07-20; legacy audio/realtime/transcription model families and snapshots shut down 2027-01-20
  2. Legacy realtime: gpt-realtime, gpt-4o-realtime, gpt-realtime-mini, gpt-4o-mini-realtime -> replace with gpt-realtime-2.1 (mini variants -> gpt-realtime-2.1-mini)
  3. Legacy audio: gpt-audio, gpt-4o-audio, gpt-audio-mini, gpt-4o-mini-audio -> replace with gpt-audio-1.5
  4. Legacy transcription snapshot gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-03-20 -> replace with gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-12-15
  5. Update model name in v1/realtime, v1/audio/transcriptions and related calls; verify via GET responses
  6. Pin the replacement snapshot in your agent config and re-test the realtime/transcription flow before 2027-01-20

Known gotchas

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