Faster-whisper not receiving audio

Hi, I have Home Assistant installed in docker on a virtual machine. To leverage a GPU, I have installed faster-whisper on a different machine. I have it set up to use cuda with the following:

version: '3'
services:
  wyoming-whisper:
    image: rhasspy/wyoming-whisper:latest
    ports:
      - "10300:10300"
    volumes:
      - /home/user/whisper-data:/data

    command: --model medium-int8 --language en --beam-size 5 --device cuda


    restart: unless-stopped
    runtime: nvidia
    deploy:
        resources:
          reservations:
            devices:
              - driver: nvidia
                count: 1
                capabilities: [gpu]

The container starts no problem, I see it occupy memory when I use “nvidia-smi”, and the docker log shows:

INFO:main:Ready

I have Home assistant set up with a pipeline using faster-whisper and piper. Piper easily speaks text.

However, I open my phone app, or use the computer. Open the assistant, click the microphone icon so that it starts blinking, but nothing shows up on the faster-whisper logs. I do not see any errors in Home Assistant. The microphone just continues to flash.

No clue even where to start troubleshooting since there is no indication of a problem. I have tried removing the CUDA argument and just running it on the PC and I get the same outcome.

Any help would be greatly appreciated in figuring out where thie issue lies.

Thanks!