Sometimes (about each 5th request) audio is cutting off at the end, but in console we receive whole transcription in console. Language [Kazakh, Russian]

WELL WELL. If the problem is on server side, and OpenAI is not breathing regarding this one, we need to get very creative. Try this at the very end of your “instructions”: “It is important that you add a silent pause [pause] at the end of your response WITHOUT saying the word ‘PAUSE’.” It seems t…

it’s not long pause enough to prevent some part of the message to still be missing. was worth to try though.

We all waiting an explanation or a correction time plan for this issue from @openai engineers

Buffered playback. GPT-4o generates audio faster than it can be played back. Our SDKs automatically buffer, stream, handle user interruptions, and play back audio with the correct timing. I got this from [image] OpenAI and LiveKit partner to turn Advanced Voice into an API LiveKit and …

I’m using the LiveKit SDK and am still seeing the audio cut off issue there too :frowning:

This post could be relevant here: [image] Sharing experiences about Realtime in the backend hot_beverage API I have read several posts on this forum about problems with the Realtime API, especially two points: Audio cuts off at the end of each AI response. N…

I’ve noticed a potential correlation: when setting the voice to ‘verse,’ a large portion of the audio is consistently cut off. However, when leaving the voice setting at its default, the issue still occurs but much less frequently, affecting only the last part of the final sentence.

@stsuruno looks like they might be working on something that could be related, but perhaps that is wishful thinking! Wait until the output_audio_buffer is empty by stsuruno-openai · Pull Request #20 · openai/openai-realtime-agents · GitHub

Same problem here, audio is cutting of at the end

Guys i have a different problem with trying to figure out how to update a session So i’m new to this and i’m building a application and trying to understand how openai’s realtime api with webrtc works. here’s my frontend where i initiate the connection and create the session and get the ephemeral …

[Realtime API] Audio is randomly cutting off at the end

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[Realtime API] Audio is randomly cutting off at the end

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