# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Voice playback stop button and auto-advance fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These members address issues with the voice playback stop button not fully halting speech and the player automatically advancing to the next sentence after stopping. Fixes also touch voice profile scoping, remote media playback, and read-aloud content behavior.

## 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 #73521. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #73521 (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-73521`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #70955: Voice Playback Stop Button Doesn't Fully Stop Speech and Auto-Starts Next Sentence

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#73521: fix(desktop): voice profile scoping, remote media playback, stop-button state, read-aloud content**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/hooks/use-voice-conversation.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/markdown-text.media.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/markdown-text.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/hermes-profile-scope.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/hermes.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/hermes.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/media.remote.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/media.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/speech-text.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/speech-text.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/voice-playback.ts`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `hermes_cli/web_server.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server_profile_unification.py`
- **#71022: fix(desktop): prevent voice playback from auto-starting next sentence after stop (#70955)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `097f0d0167`, `00cdd25346`, `#73521`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #73521 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-07-28`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`