diff --git a/lib/tasks/gather.js b/lib/tasks/gather.js
index 75a55a23..2e656966 100644
--- a/lib/tasks/gather.js
+++ b/lib/tasks/gather.js
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ class TaskGather extends Task {
     }
 
     const startListening = (cs, ep) => {
+      this.logger.info("started listening for speech events via startListening");
       this._startTimer();
       if (this.input.includes('speech') && !this.listenDuringPrompt) {
         this._initSpeech(cs, ep)
@@ -115,7 +116,7 @@ class TaskGather extends Task {
         this.sayTask.exec(cs, ep);  // kicked off, _not_ waiting for it to complete
         this.sayTask.on('playDone', (err) => {
           if (err) return this.logger.error({err}, 'Gather:exec Error playing tts');
-          this.logger.debug('Gather: say task completed');
+          this.logger.info({killed: this.killed, listenAfterSpeech: this.listenAfterSpeech }, 'Gather: say task completed');
           if (!this.killed) {
             if (this.listenAfterSpeech === true) {
               startListening(cs, ep);
@@ -256,6 +257,7 @@ class TaskGather extends Task {
       ep.addCustomEventListener(AzureTranscriptionEvents.Transcription, this._onTranscription.bind(this, cs, ep));
       ep.addCustomEventListener(AzureTranscriptionEvents.NoSpeechDetected, this._onNoSpeechDetected.bind(this, cs, ep));
     }
+    this.logger.info("started listening on speech events");
     await ep.set(opts)
       .catch((err) => this.logger.info(err, 'Error setting channel variables'));
   }
@@ -350,6 +352,7 @@ class TaskGather extends Task {
       }
     }
   }
+
   _onEndOfUtterance(cs, ep) {
     this.logger.info('TaskGather:_onEndOfUtterance');
     if (!this.resolved && !this.killed) {