# NousResearch/hermes-agent · TTS cleanup for raw identifiers and filenames

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a bug where read-aloud/TTS output speaks raw filenames, hashes, paths, and identifiers verbatim, producing garbled audio. Proposed fixes involve sanitizing or rewriting such tokens into speakable placeholders within speech normalizers.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #128289. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #128289 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-128289`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.50`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #119207: \[Bug\]: Read-aloud / auto-TTS speaks filenames and identifiers raw, making clean audio sound corrupted

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#128289: fix(tts): silence identifier-dense tokens in both speech normalizers**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/lib/speech-text.identifier-corpus.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/speech-text.ts`, `tests/fixtures/identifier_speech_corpus.json`, `tests/tools/test_tts_identifier_speech.py`, `tools/tts_text_normalize.py`
- **#119212: fix(desktop): sanitize identifier-heavy TTS text**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#128289`
- **#127425: Read-aloud: rewrite filenames/hashes/paths/IDs into speakable placeholders**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `c81633bac94a`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #128289 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-01`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`