The problem

I upgraded to 2025.8.0 and when I interact with the assistant, in the app I will get the text printed out, but no voice response anymore. When using the Voice Preview Edition, it will spin one direction for the voice prompt, pulse for the determination, then simply spin until time out the other direction and no voice response.

If I restart my piper container while it's spinning, it will provide the voice response immediately when I restart the container.

Rolling back to 2025.7.4 resolves this issue.

What information can I provide?

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2025.8.0

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

core-2025.7.4

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

Voice Assistant

Link to integration documentation on our website

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Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

Additional information

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