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Voice transcription fails with 403 (Cloudflare HTML challenge) and silently drops transcript #12804

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What version of Codex CLI is running?

0.105.0

What subscription do you have?

ChatGPT Pro

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.3-codex xhigh

What platform is your computer?

Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64

What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?

Powershell

What issue are you seeing?

Voice transcription results in getting the Cloudflare challenge page

.codex/log/codex-tui.log:

2026-02-25T18:24:43.334278Z ERROR codex_tui::voice: voice transcription error: transcription failed: 403 Forbidden <!DOCTYPE html>...

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Every other thing works:

  • other Codex CLI features
  • ChatGPT in the browser
  • Codex App from the same outgoing IP

What steps can reproduce the bug?

  • hold space to record
  • speak, see the recording animation
  • release space, animation stopped
  • FAILURE 1 -> no text is inserted, textbox is cleared
  • FAILURE 2 -> no error message is shown

What is the expected behavior?

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