The coach is not talking

The session started, you are out on track, but you can’t hear anything.

First check whether you see coaching text on screen with no sound. The app shows each message in the Coach panel and speaks it separately, so text with no voice is an audio problem and has nothing to do with the coaching.

The coach has spoken	The coach has nothing to say yet
Text with no sound is an audio problem: skip to It is talking and you cannot hear it.	Listening… past your first lap: work down this page in order.

You are not on the event’s track, or in its car

GT Coach coaches the event you started, against its target lap. Drive another track and there is nothing to compare you against.

The app checks each time you go on track. For the first few seconds of a lap it shows Confirming the track while it works out where you are, and the coach starts once it has.

The status at the top of the window says Coaching ready before you go on track, Confirming track while it checks, and Coaching once the coach is running.

If the track is not the event’s, or your car is not one the event allows, the app shows Coaching paused and says why. Relaunch with an allowed car, or drive the right track, and coaching picks up again. See Choosing an event.

It is your first lap

The coach learns from your driving. On the first ever lap it has nothing to compare yet, so it holds back and mentions only the clearest mistakes. From lap two it should be talking on your worst corners; if it is not, keep working down this page.

Nothing was big enough to mention

Your Sensitivity setting decides how much a corner has to cost you before it is worth interrupting you. If you pick the wrong sensitivity (e.g. Beginner while you’re clearly a top-1000 driver), it’s very likely the coach won’t have anything to say for your level. Adjust the sensitivity toward Alien to hear about smaller losses. See Coaching sensitivity.

You crashed or spun and it said nothing

A corner you know you butchered can be the one corner it stays quiet about.

It skips corners where you had a crash or are in the gravel. Go off, spin, or lose an abnormal amount of time somewhere and that corner is dropped. The coach will not diagnose a crash or praise you for one, because the numbers from a crash say nothing about your technique. It still learns from what led to the crash, so that on the next laps it can coach you to avoid it.

It was waiting for a gap

• It will not talk over your hands. While you are hard on the brakes, catching a slide, or busy with the wheel, it waits. It looks for a gap before your next braking zone, and if there is no gap long enough to fit the sentence, it says nothing at all rather than half of it.
• It leaves some breathing space between messages, so a corner that goes wrong right after another one can go unmentioned.

It is talking and you cannot hear it

Open Settings, go to Audio, and press Preview. It speaks a test line. If you hear that, your audio works and the silence is one of the reasons above. If Preview is greyed out, the voice is still loading or failed to start: see Voice unavailable. If you do not hear it, the problem is output:

• Check the output device selected there is the one you are actually listening to, and that the volume is turned up.
• If you use Discord audio, you have to be in the voice channel yourself. GT Coach speaks into the channel whether or not anyone joined. During a session the app shows Audio reconnecting… while it rejoins the channel, and Audio off if the link has dropped. See Discord audio.

Still nothing?

This could be a problem with the audio backend. See the troubleshooting steps in Voice unavailable, or join our Discord community and we’ll be more than happy to help and unblock you. Bring your logs: open Settings, go to Help, and choose Export logs.