agent_end awaited one whole-answer synthesis; long answers hit the
harness 30s extension-handler timeout (handler timed out after 30000ms)
and the single frank-tts request was the stall. Port the built-in
speak-aloud vocalizer's utterance segmenter (fHe in dist/cli.js) so
segmentation matches the known-working stock path: [.!?…]-run
boundaries, abbreviation/decimal/inline-code guards, fenced code and
tables swallowed, markup cleaned. Play segment N to player exit before
synthesizing N+1 (audio never stacks); fire-and-forget the chain so
utterances outlive the handler timeout; a run token retires superseded
chains. DANKVOICE_MAX becomes a per-answer budget of whole segments;
stripForSpeech is gone. Refs #23 follow-up.
Frank
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