Merge pull request #2523 from sam-s10s/fix/connection-none

Speechmatics TTS connection issue

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Fixed a `CartesiaTTSService` issue that was causing the application to hang
   after Cartesia's 5 minutes timed out.
 
+- Fixed an issue preventing `SpeechmaticsSTTService` from transcribing audio.
+
 ## [0.0.81] - 2025-08-25
 
 ### Added

src/pipecat/services/speechmatics/stt.py

@@ -581,7 +581,6 @@ class SpeechmaticsSTTService(STTService):
             logger.debug(f"{self} Connected to Speechmatics STT service")
         except Exception as e:
             logger.error(f"{self} Error connecting to Speechmatics: {e}")
-        finally:
             self._client = None
 
     async def _disconnect(self) -> None: