Web Calls Losing Audio

I use Retell to run about 30 calls a day. About 1 in 30 face disconnection issues. These are almost always logged as user hangups, but when you listen to the call, it’s clear that the agent and the person stopped hearing each other, and eventually the disconnection led the person to off, triggering the hang up. These are almost always calls via the API (never the phone). Sometimes the disconnection happens in the middle of the call. Other times the audio seems not to work from the beginning.

For the life of me, I can’t figure out what’s causing this. Any ideas?

Hey @adam

Could you please share the call IDs where the disconnections occurred? This will help us investigate the issue more effectively.

Thank you!

Call_b38fbba42473db7db626594a925
Call_de3c09236b4a7e76d983e7a47ff
Call_0e16bf5caace4cb7f9b79085314
Call_244156b23956be650462ab375fa
Call_cbb69ea60d8a6fb94d83935c6ac
Call_ae8a2d40028811ebe956ab1f8bc

^some examples!

Hey @adam

I’ve escalated this to our team for further review.

We’ll update you as soon as we hear back.

Best regards

Hey @adam

From our investigation, the Retell server pipeline (ASR, LLM, TTS) is healthy on these calls; the audio loss originates on the your side (browser/WebRTC), after which the call ends with a user hangup.

Thank You