Realtime API: input transcription completion references a nonexistent item after response.cancel and input audio commit

· Community Openai · Sept. 13, 2026, 4:52 p.m.
Summary
The blog post discusses a bug encountered when using the OpenAI Realtime API for transcription, specifically regarding a mismatch between audio item IDs during cancellation and transcription completion. It outlines the environment setup, the bug's reproduction steps and diagnostics, and requests further investigation into the issue between the server's audio references and the transcription event outputs.
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