Realtime API audio response unexpectedly repeated an unrelated personal sentence multiple times mid-conversation
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May 26, 2026
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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