# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Local speech-to-text crashes and robustness on Apple Silicon

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

The members center on local speech-to-text (STT) problems, including a reported Python crash from gateway voice notes on Apple Silicon/Rosetta and a pull request aimed at avoiding that crash. Another pull request takes a broader approach to STT provider robustness, covering device config, CUDA fallbacks, audio container normalization, and lazy-install recovery.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #73510. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #73510 (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-73510`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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

- #28622: Gateway voice notes crash Python on Apple Silicon/Rosetta local STT

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#73510: fix(stt): provider robustness — device config, CUDA fallbacks, container normalization (SILK/m4a), lazy-install recovery**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `gateway/run.py`, `tests/gateway/test_stt_config.py`, `tests/tools/test_managed_media_gateways.py`, `tests/tools/test_transcription_command_providers.py`, `tests/tools/test_transcription_plugin_dispatch.py`, `tests/tools/test_transcription_tools.py`, `tests/tools/test_tts_pythonpath_fallback.py`, `tests/tools/test_voice_mode.py`, `tools/lazy_deps.py`, `tools/transcription_tools.py`, `tools/tts_tool.py`, `tools/voice_mode.py`
- **#28624: fix: avoid local STT crash on Apple Silicon**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `c0c5dac531`, `#73510`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #73510 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-07-28`.
- Subsystem: `gateway`