foreign-sapphire•1h ago
Assistant goes silent after calling tool. Chat works fine.
It looks like it still waiting for you to say something, even if you were the last one to say something.
I made a couple test voice calls and if you speak again before the silence time out, continues fine, but if you don't say anything else after your initial interaction it ends the call with silence.
If access the assistant via chat works just fine.
Please Advice
Call ID: 4ea9d773-c549-43e0-bc6a-30a33f484351
1 Reply
Thanks for sharing the details. Based on the documentation, if the assistant goes silent after the initial interaction, it could be due to the "firstMessageMode" setting or missing "firstMessage" in your assistant configuration—by default, the assistant should speak first, but if not set, it waits for the user to speak (Vapi docs).
Could you confirm if your assistant's "firstMessageMode" is set to "assistant-speaks-first" and that a "firstMessage" is specified in your configuration? This will help narrow down the cause of the silence.
Source:
- Vapi API Reference: Update Assistant
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