OpenAI TTS Problem with Premiere

I am having the worst time trying to bring OpenAI TTS .wav files into Adobe Premiere. ChatGPT is telling me it is likely a “headers” problem. Gemini is saying the same thing. It is also suggesting I export from OpenAI TTS to .mp3.

The .wav files work perfectly well when I use them in Adobe Express. Yet I cannot use them in Adobe Premiere. I cannot drop them on to the time line. WHen I use the comma kay to add one, the clip spans the entire timeline and does not play anything.

I tried increasing from 24hz to 44hz in Media Encoder but that did not work either.

Right now I have to convert all .wav to mp3 in order to work with them.

Anyone having the same issues or have any insight?

Any help appreciated because I need to create about 60 videos for social media.