diff --git a/src/dailyai/pipeline/pipeline.py b/src/dailyai/pipeline/pipeline.py
index 8e6c13d2b..e755377ef 100644
--- a/src/dailyai/pipeline/pipeline.py
+++ b/src/dailyai/pipeline/pipeline.py
@@ -48,6 +48,16 @@ async def get_next_source_frame(self) -> AsyncGenerator[Frame, None]:
             raise ValueError("Source queue not set")
         yield await self.source.get()
 
+    async def run_pipeline_recursively(
+        self, initial_frame: Frame, processors: List[FrameProcessor]
+    ) -> AsyncGenerator[Frame, None]:
+        if processors:
+            async for frame in processors[0].process_frame(initial_frame):
+                async for final_frame in self.run_pipeline_recursively(frame, processors[1:]):
+                    yield final_frame
+        else:
+            yield initial_frame
+
     async def run_pipeline(self):
         """ Run the pipeline. Take each frame from the source queue, pass it to
         the first frame_processor, pass the output of that frame_processor to the
@@ -65,23 +75,12 @@ async def run_pipeline(self):
 
         try:
             while True:
-                frame_generators = [self.get_next_source_frame()]
-                for processor in self.processors:
-                    next_frame_generators = []
-                    for frame_generator in frame_generators:
-                        async for frame in frame_generator:
-                            next_frame_generators.append(processor.process_frame(frame))
-                    frame_generators = next_frame_generators
+                initial_frame = await self.source.get()
+                async for frame in self.run_pipeline_recursively(initial_frame, self.processors):
+                    await self.sink.put(frame)
 
-                for frame_generator in frame_generators:
-                    async for frame in frame_generator:
-                        await self.sink.put(frame)
-                        if isinstance(
-                            frame, EndFrame
-                        ) or isinstance(
-                            frame, EndPipeFrame
-                        ):
-                            return
+                if isinstance(initial_frame, EndFrame) or isinstance(initial_frame, EndPipeFrame):
+                    break
         except asyncio.CancelledError:
             # this means there's been an interruption, do any cleanup necessary here.
             for processor in self.processors:
diff --git a/src/dailyai/tests/test_pipeline.py b/src/dailyai/tests/test_pipeline.py
index b5c9edd05..0d7f43f3b 100644
--- a/src/dailyai/tests/test_pipeline.py
+++ b/src/dailyai/tests/test_pipeline.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import asyncio
-from doctest import OutputChecker
 import unittest
 from dailyai.pipeline.aggregators import SentenceAggregator, StatelessTextTransformer
 from dailyai.pipeline.frames import EndFrame, TextFrame
diff --git a/src/examples/foundational/04-utterance-and-speech.py b/src/examples/foundational/04-utterance-and-speech.py
index 3b67fb149..242a5c21c 100644
--- a/src/examples/foundational/04-utterance-and-speech.py
+++ b/src/examples/foundational/04-utterance-and-speech.py
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ async def main(room_url: str):
         buffer_queue = asyncio.Queue()
         source_queue = asyncio.Queue()
         pipeline = Pipeline(source = source_queue, sink=buffer_queue, processors=[llm, elevenlabs_tts])
-        source_queue.put_nowait(LLMMessagesQueueFrame(messages))
+        await source_queue.put(LLMMessagesQueueFrame(messages))
+        await source_queue.put(EndFrame())
         pipeline_run_task = pipeline.run_pipeline()
 
         @transport.event_handler("on_first_other_participant_joined")
diff --git a/src/examples/foundational/05-sync-speech-and-image.py b/src/examples/foundational/05-sync-speech-and-image.py
index ee02f6ed3..cb72642d1 100644
--- a/src/examples/foundational/05-sync-speech-and-image.py
+++ b/src/examples/foundational/05-sync-speech-and-image.py
@@ -47,7 +47,20 @@ async def main(room_url):
 
         source_queue = asyncio.Queue()
 
-        for month in ["January", "February"]:
+        for month in [
+            "January",
+            "February",
+            "March",
+            "April",
+            "May",
+            "June",
+            "July",
+            "August",
+            "September",
+            "October",
+            "November",
+            "December",
+        ]:
             messages = [
                 {
                     "role": "system",
diff --git a/src/examples/foundational/06-listen-and-respond.py b/src/examples/foundational/06-listen-and-respond.py
index ce117a9a9..90fcfb396 100644
--- a/src/examples/foundational/06-listen-and-respond.py
+++ b/src/examples/foundational/06-listen-and-respond.py
@@ -51,8 +51,8 @@ async def handle_transcriptions():
                 tma_in,
                 llm,
                 fl2,
+                tts,
                 tma_out,
-                tts
             ],
         )
         await transport.run_uninterruptible_pipeline(pipeline)