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Reachy Mini Not Speaking in Reachy Mini Conversation App— GStreamer DeviceMonitor Fails Without PipeWire/PulseAudio Before you jump in Make sure to check that you have not run out OpenAI api credits or reachy is not on low battery. Sometimes both of those issues lead him to act differently. The Problem Your Reachy Mini Wireless robot connects to the OpenAI Realtime API successfully, dances, plays emotions, and calls tools autonomously — but it never speaks or responds to your voice. The robot appears to be "talking to itself," cycling through idle behaviors like do_nothing reason=contemplating existence with zero speech interaction. The system logs show the conversation app launching cleanly with the session connected, but two critical warnings buried in the startup output reveal the root cause: WARNING reachy_mini.media.audio_gstreamer:470 | No Source audio card found. WARNING reachy_mini.media.audio_gstreamer:470 | No Sink audio card found. No Source means no microphone input. No Sin

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