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Realtime API audio response unexpectedly repeated an unrelated personal sentence multiple times mid-conversation

OpenAI Developer Community May 26, 2026
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Welcome to the community @techiesingh! That’s definitely unsettling, especially since the response was completely unrelated to your conversation context. The repeated emotional playback part also makes this seem more like a realtime/session issue than normal model behavior. To help narrow it down, could you share a few details from the session? * Request ID(s) * Approximate timestamp(s) when it happened * Model used * Realtime session configuration if relevant * Snapshot/export of the realtime event log * Whether the repeated audio also had repeated transcript events, or if it was only the audio playback repeating * Whether interruption/turn detection was active * Anything else unusual right before it started looping Those details can help identify whether this came from transcript generation, audio playback state, buffering, or a session-level mix-up. A few folks have reported odd realtime/audio edge cases recently, so having the event timeline is especially useful here. -Mark G.

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