# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop TTS sentence-by-sentence streaming fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and pull requests address a bug where desktop Edge TTS and synchronous TTS were not streaming audio sentence by sentence as documented, instead synthesizing the whole response at once. The work involves fixes to speak fallback and sync TTS replies incrementally as sentences arrive.

## 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 #121685. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #121685 (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-121685`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #79314: \[Bug\]: Desktop Edge TTS silently falls back to whole-response synthesis despite documented sentence streaming

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#121685: fix(desktop): speak Edge/sync TTS replies sentence by sentence (#79314)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/hooks/use-voice-conversation-rearm.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/hooks/use-voice-conversation.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/speech-text.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/speech-text.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/voice-client-direct.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/voice-client-direct.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/voice-playback.ts`
- **#82774: fix(desktop): stream sync TTS by sentence**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `d5785bb525`, `#121685`, `#79314`
- **#121568: fix(desktop): speak fallback TTS sentences before the reply ends**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#82774`, `#79314`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #121685 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-24`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`