# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Voice session drain on barge-in and stop

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address handling of live speech and voice playback sessions during barge-in and stop events, related to a bug where spoken replies jump back to older turns during hands-free voice conversation.

## 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 #128207. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #128207 (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-128207`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #91991: Spoken reply jumps back — reads old reply from several turns ago during hands-free voice conversation (after barge-in)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#128207: fix(desktop): drain every live voice playback on stop**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/lib/voice-playback.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/voice-playback.ts`
- **#92334: fix(desktop): drain every live speech session on barge-in (#91991)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `298a01c79`, `#128207`, `#91991`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #128207 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-10-01`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`