[Bug]: [Gaia talk] Unable to find pip tool when launching a talk session #343
Description
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- I've taken a look at existing issues and discussions
- I've checked the hardware requirements in the docs
- This issue relates to GAIA UI (Open-WebUI)
Which version of GAIA are you using?
0.15.4
Details to help us reproduce the issue
Following the how-to available there https://amd-gaia.ai/guides/talk#quick-start, the talk session immediately ends with an error related to pip module not found
Please find attached the complete command line sequence (from the creation of the Python virtual environment up to the error report).
Unable_to_find_pip_tool_in_virtual_env.txt
What actually happened?
Launching a talk session via "gaia talk" cli command I get a systematic error where Gaia "complains" it does not find the pip tool in the current python virtual env.
(.venv) tyron@Hx370:~/Gaia$ gaia talk
[2026-02-15 12:22:49] | INFO | gaia.audio.audio_client.__init__ | audio_client.py:50 | Audio client initialized.
[2026-02-15 12:22:49] | INFO | gaia.talk.sdk.__init__ | sdk.py:145 | TalkSDK initialized with ChatSDK integration
Starting voice chat...
Say 'stop' to quit or press Ctrl+C
WARNING: Defaulting repo_id to hexgrad/Kokoro-82M. Pass repo_id='hexgrad/Kokoro-82M' to suppress this warning.
[2026-02-15 12:22:55] | INFO | httpx._send_single_request | _client.py:1025 | HTTP Request: HEAD https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M/resolve/main/config.json "HTTP/1.1 307 Temporary Redirect"
config.json: 2.35kB [00:00, 9.98MB/s]
/home/tyron/Gaia/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/torch/nn/utils/weight_norm.py:144: FutureWarning: `torch.nn.utils.weight_norm` is deprecated in favor of `torch.nn.utils.parametrizations.weight_norm`.
WeightNorm.apply(module, name, dim)
[2026-02-15 12:22:55] | INFO | httpx._send_single_request | _client.py:1025 | HTTP Request: HEAD https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M/resolve/main/kokoro-v1_0.pth "HTTP/1.1 302 Found"
kokoro-v1_0.pth: 100%|██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 327M/327M [00:03<00:00, 90.4MB/s]
/home/tyron/Gaia/.venv/bin/python3: No module named pip
[2026-02-15 12:22:59] | INFO | gaia.talk.sdk.start_voice_session | sdk.py:271 | Voice chat session ended
(.venv) tyron@Hx370:~/Gaia$
Note: I confirm pip is not available in "/home/tyron/Gaia/.venv/bin"
What did you expect to happen?
To "solve" the issue, I "just" installed pip in the environment via "python -m ensurepip --upgrade" command
(.venv) tyron@Hx370:~/Gaia$ python -m ensurepip --upgrade
Looking in links: /tmp/tmpktrpgzch
Processing /tmp/tmpktrpgzch/pip-25.0.1-py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: pip
Successfully installed pip-25.0.1
Then the talk session reaches the expecting "listening" prompt
(.venv) tyron@Hx370:~/Gaia$ gaia talk
[2026-02-15 14:28:43] | INFO | gaia.audio.audio_client.__init__ | audio_client.py:50 | Audio client initialized.
[2026-02-15 14:28:43] | INFO | gaia.talk.sdk.__init__ | sdk.py:145 | TalkSDK initialized with ChatSDK integration
Starting voice chat...
Say 'stop' to quit or press Ctrl+C
WARNING: Defaulting repo_id to hexgrad/Kokoro-82M. Pass repo_id='hexgrad/Kokoro-82M' to suppress this warning.
[2026-02-15 14:28:45] | INFO | httpx._send_single_request | _client.py:1025 | HTTP Request: HEAD https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M/resolve/main/config.json "HTTP/1.1 307 Temporary Redirect"
/home/tyron/Gaia/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/torch/nn/utils/weight_norm.py:144: FutureWarning: `torch.nn.utils.weight_norm` is deprecated in favor of `torch.nn.utils.parametrizations.weight_norm`.
WeightNorm.apply(module, name, dim)
[2026-02-15 14:28:46] | INFO | httpx._send_single_request | _client.py:1025 | HTTP Request: HEAD https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M/resolve/main/kokoro-v1_0.pth "HTTP/1.1 302 Found"
Collecting en-core-web-sm==3.8.0
Downloading https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-3.8.0/en_core_web_sm-3.8.0-py3-none-any.whl (12.8 MB)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 12.8/12.8 MB 80.5 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Installing collected packages: en-core-web-sm
Successfully installed en-core-web-sm-3.8.0
[notice] A new release of pip is available: 25.0.1 -> 26.0.1
[notice] To update, run: pip3 install --upgrade pip
✔ Download and installation successful
You can now load the package via spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')
Starting voice chat.
How did you install GAIA?
Installer
Which mode are you running?
None
What's your CPU?
AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370
What about your GPU setup?
Integrated GPU (iGPU) only
AMD GPU Driver Version
No response
NPU Driver Version
No response
Lemonade Version (if applicable)
v9.3.0
What's your operating system?
Ubuntu 25.10