# NousResearch/hermes-agent · TTS sentence splitter missing CJK punctuation support

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #78477: \[Bug\]: Streaming TTS sentence cutter ignores Chinese punctuation (。！？) — long Chinese replies never split, stalling speak-stream
- PR #78489: fix(tts): sentence cutter ignores CJK punctuation — long Chinese replies never split
- PR #78491: fix(tts): split streaming sentences on CJK terminators (。！？…) (#78477)

Reports and a fix attempt addressing the streaming TTS sentence cutter not recognizing Chinese/CJK punctuation marks (。！？…) as sentence terminators, causing long Chinese responses to never split. Covers the bug report and related code change.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 2 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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.

## Open related issues

- #78477: \[Bug\]: Streaming TTS sentence cutter ignores Chinese punctuation (。！？) — long Chinese replies never split, stalling speak-stream

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#78489: fix(tts): sentence cutter ignores CJK punctuation — long Chinese replies never split**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_tts_streaming.py`, `tools/tts_streaming.py`
- **#78491: fix(tts): split streaming sentences on CJK terminators (。！？…) (#78477)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `e12f280ad0`, `#78477`, `#78491`
  - files: `tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server_speak_stream.py`, `tests/tools/test_tts_streaming.py`, `tools/tts_streaming.py`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `agent`