update to fsmrf with fix

2026-01-25 02:07:56 +00:00 · 2024-01-18 14:33:21 -05:00
52 changed files with 10287 additions and 8651 deletions
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -6,17 +6,12 @@ jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
-          node-version: 20
+          node-version: 18
      - run: npm ci
      - run: npm run jslint
-      - name: Install Docker Compose
-        run: |
-          sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.29.2/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
-          sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
-          docker-compose --version
      - run: docker pull drachtio/sipp
      - run: npm test
        env:
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -42,4 +42,3 @@ ecosystem.config.js
 test/credentials/*.json
 run-tests.sh
 run-coverage.sh
-.vscode
--- a/.vscode/launch.json
+++ b/.vscode/launch.json
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+{
+  // Use IntelliSense to learn about possible attributes.
+  // Hover to view descriptions of existing attributes.
+  // For more information, visit: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=830387
+  "version": "0.2.0",
+  "configurations": [
+    {
+      "type": "node",
+      "request": "launch",
+      "name": "Launch Program",
+      "program": "${workspaceFolder}/test/index.js",
+      "env": {
+        "NODE_ENV": "test"
+      }
+    }
+  ]
+}
--- a/2
+++ b/2
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 MIT License

-Copyright (c) 2018-2024 FirstFive8, Inc.
+Copyright (c) 2021 Drachtio Communications Services, LLC

 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ Configuration is provided via environment variables:
 |ENCRYPTION_SECRET| secret for credential encryption(JWT_SECRET is deprecated) |yes|
 |GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS| path to gcp service key file|yes|
 |HTTP_PORT| tcp port to listen on for API requests from jambonz-api-server|yes|
-|HTTP_IP| IP Address for API requests from jambonz-api-server |no|
 |JAMBONES_GATHER_EARLY_HINTS_MATCH| if true and hints are provided, gather will opportunistically review interim transcripts if possible to reduce ASR latency |no|
 |JAMBONES_FREESWITCH| IP:port:secret for Freeswitch server (e.g. '127.0.0.1:8021:JambonzR0ck$'|yes|
 |JAMBONES_LOGLEVEL| log level for application, 'info' or 'debug'|no|
--- a/app.js
+++ b/app.js
@@ -100,13 +100,8 @@ createHttpListener(logger, srf)
  });


-setInterval(async() => {
+setInterval(() => {
  srf.locals.stats.gauge('fs.sip.calls.count', sessionTracker.count);
-  // Checking system log level
-  const systemInformation = await srf.locals.dbHelpers.lookupSystemInformation();
-  if (systemInformation && systemInformation.log_level) {
-    logger.level = systemInformation.log_level;
-  }
 }, 20000);

 const disconnect = () => {
--- a/data/example-voicemail-greetings.json
+++ b/data/example-voicemail-greetings.json
@@ -9,112 +9,7 @@
    "can't take your call",
    "will get back to you",
    "I'll get back to you",
-    "we are unable",
-    "Unable to take your call now",
-    "I'll reply soon",
-    "I'll call back",
-    "I'll reach out to you as soon as possible",
-    "Leave a message",
-    "Away from phone",
-    "Not available now",
-    "I'll return call",
-    "On another call",
-    "Currently on another call",
-    "I will return call later",
-    "Busy please leave message",
-    "Message will be returned promptly",
-    "Currently unavailable to answer",
-    "Planning to return your call soon",
-    "Apologies for missing your call",
-    "Not by the phone at the moment",
-    "Expecting to return your call",
-    "Currently not accessible",
-    "Intend to call back",
-    "Appreciate your patience!",
-    "Engaged in another conversation",
-    "I Will respond promptly",
-    "Kindly leave a message",
-    "Currently occupied leave a message",
-    "Unfortunately unable to answer right now",
-    "Occupied at the moment",
-    "Not present leave a message",
-    "Regrettably unavailable kindly leave a message",
-    "Will ensure a prompt response to your message",
-    "Currently engaged",
-    "Will return your call at the earliest opportunity",
-    "Your message will receive my prompt attention",
-    "I'll respond as soon as I can",
-    "Your message is important please leave it after the beep",
-    "Away from the phone at the moment",
-    "Unable to answer right now",
-    "Engaged in another task",
-    "Not by the phone presently",
-    "I'll respond at my earliest convenience",
-    "Away from the phone momentarily",
-    "I'll return your call shortly",
-    "Currently not able to answer",
-    "Your message is important please leave it after the tone",
-    "I'm unable to take your call right now",
-    "Please leave your message for me",
-    "I'll get back to you soon",
-    "Your call has been missed",
-    "Please leave a detailed message for me to respond to",
-    "Leave a message I'll make sure to respond",
-    "Feel free to leave a message",
-    "Your call is important to me",
-    "I'll get back to you shortly",
-    "Your message will be attended to promptly",
-    "Not available at the moment",
-    "I'll be sure to get back to you",
-    "I'll call you back soon",
-    "I'll ensure a prompt response",
-    "Sorry for the inconvenience",
-    "I'll return your call",
-    "I'll make sure to get back to you",
-    "I'll call you back shortly",
-    "I'll return your call as soon as possible",
-    "Apologies for the inconvenience leave your message",
-    "Your call is appreciated",
-    "I'm unavailable to answer",
-    "I'm currently away",
-    "I'll return your call as soon as I can",
-    "I'm away from the phone",
-    "I'm currently unavailable to take your call",
-    "Sorry for missing your call",
-    "I'll ensure it receives my immediate attention",
-    "I'm away from the phone momentarily",
-    "I'll reach out to you shortly",
-    "Apologies for the inconvenience",
-    "Currently occupied",
-    "Unable to answer your call at the moment",
-    "I'll make sure to follow up with you",
-    "Sorry for not being available",
-    "I'll reach out to you as soon as I can",
-    "I'm currently engaged",
-    "I'm currently busy",
-    "I'm currently unavailable",
-    "I'll respond to you at my earliest convenience",
-    "Your message is appreciated",
-    "I'll get back to you promptly",
-    "I'll get back to you without delay",
-    "Currently away from the phone",
-    "I'll return your call at my earliest opportunity",
-    "Sorry for the missed call",
-    "I'll make sure to address your concerns",
-    "Please provide your details for a callback",
-    "I'll make every effort to respond promptly",
-    "I'll ensure it's attended to promptly",
-    "Away from the phone temporarily",
-    "I'll get back to you as soon as I return",
-    "Currently not in a position to answer your call",
-    "Your call cannot be answered at the moment",
-    "I'll ensure to respond as soon as I'm able",
-    "Your call is important please leave a message",
-    "Unable to answer right now please leave your message",
-    "Currently not accessible intending to return your call",
-    "I'll respond promptly to your message",
-    "leave a memo",
-    "please leave a memo"
+    "we are unable"
  ],
  "es-ES": [
    "le pasamos la llamada",
--- a/lib/config.js
+++ b/lib/config.js
@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@ const JAMBONES_LOGLEVEL = process.env.JAMBONES_LOGLEVEL || 'info';
 const JAMBONES_INJECT_CONTENT = process.env.JAMBONES_INJECT_CONTENT;

 const PORT = parseInt(process.env.HTTP_PORT, 10) || 3000;
-const HTTP_IP = process.env.HTTP_IP;
 const HTTP_PORT_MAX = parseInt(process.env.HTTP_PORT_MAX, 10);

 const K8S = process.env.K8S;
@@ -108,8 +107,6 @@ const DEEPGRAM_API_KEY = process.env.DEEPGRAM_API_KEY;
 const ANCHOR_MEDIA_ALWAYS = process.env.ANCHOR_MEDIA_ALWAYS;
 const VMD_HINTS_FILE = process.env.VMD_HINTS_FILE;

-const JAMBONES_AWS_TRANSCRIBE_USE_GRPC = process.env.JAMBONES_AWS_TRANSCRIBE_USE_GRPC;
-
 /* security, secrets */
 const LEGACY_CRYPTO = !!process.env.LEGACY_CRYPTO;
 const JWT_SECRET = process.env.JWT_SECRET;
@@ -133,9 +130,7 @@ const JAMBONZ_RECORD_WS_PASSWORD = process.env.JAMBONZ_RECORD_WS_PASSWORD || pro
 const JAMBONZ_DISABLE_DIAL_PAI_HEADER = process.env.JAMBONZ_DISABLE_DIAL_PAI_HEADER || false;
 const JAMBONES_DISABLE_DIRECT_P2P_CALL = process.env.JAMBONES_DISABLE_DIRECT_P2P_CALL || false;

-const JAMBONES_EAGERLY_PRE_CACHE_AUDIO = parseInt(process.env.JAMBONES_EAGERLY_PRE_CACHE_AUDIO, 10) || 0;
-
-const JAMBONES_USE_FREESWITCH_TIMER_FD = process.env.JAMBONES_USE_FREESWITCH_TIMER_FD;
+const JAMBONES_EAGERLY_PRE_CACHE_AUDIO = process.env.JAMBONES_EAGERLY_PRE_CACHE_AUDIO;

 module.exports = {
  JAMBONES_MYSQL_HOST,
@@ -173,7 +168,6 @@ module.exports = {
  JAMBONES_CLUSTER_ID,
  PORT,
  HTTP_PORT_MAX,
-  HTTP_IP,
  K8S,
  K8S_SBC_SIP_SERVICE_NAME,
  JAMBONES_SUBNET,
@@ -192,7 +186,6 @@ module.exports = {
  ANCHOR_MEDIA_ALWAYS,
  VMD_HINTS_FILE,
  JAMBONES_FREESWITCH_MAX_CALL_DURATION_MINS,
-  JAMBONES_AWS_TRANSCRIBE_USE_GRPC,

  LEGACY_CRYPTO,
  JWT_SECRET,
@@ -220,6 +213,5 @@ module.exports = {
  JAMBONZ_RECORD_WS_USERNAME,
  JAMBONZ_RECORD_WS_PASSWORD,
  JAMBONZ_DISABLE_DIAL_PAI_HEADER,
-  JAMBONES_DISABLE_DIRECT_P2P_CALL,
-  JAMBONES_USE_FREESWITCH_TIMER_FD
+  JAMBONES_DISABLE_DIRECT_P2P_CALL
 };
--- a/lib/dynamic-apps.js
+++ b/lib/dynamic-apps.js
@@ -30,20 +30,6 @@ const appsMap = {
        }
      ]
    }]
-  },
-  conference: {
-    // Dummy hook to follow later feature server logic.
-    call_hook: {
-      url: 'https://jambonz.org',
-      method: 'GET'
-    },
-    account_sid: '',
-    app_json: [{
-      verb: 'conference',
-      name: '',
-      beep: false,
-      startConferenceOnEnter: true
-    }]
  }
 };

@@ -52,7 +38,6 @@ const createJambonzApp = (type, {account_sid, name, caller_id}) => {
  app.account_sid = account_sid;
  switch (type) {
    case 'queue':
-    case 'conference':
      app.app_json[0].name = name;
      break;
    case 'user':
--- a/lib/http-routes/api/create-call.js
+++ b/lib/http-routes/api/create-call.js
@@ -97,8 +97,7 @@ router.post('/',
        'X-Trace-ID': rootSpan.traceId,
        ...(req.body?.application_sid && {'X-Application-Sid': req.body.application_sid}),
        ...(restDial.fromHost && {'X-Preferred-From-Host': restDial.fromHost}),
-        ...(record_all_calls && {'X-Record-All-Calls': recordOutputFormat}),
-        ...target.headers
+        ...(record_all_calls && {'X-Record-All-Calls': recordOutputFormat})
      };

      switch (target.type) {
@@ -219,7 +218,7 @@ router.post('/',
      }
      if (!app.notifier && app.call_status_hook) {
        app.notifier = new HttpRequestor(logger, account.account_sid, app.call_status_hook, account.webhook_secret);
-        logger.debug({call_status_hook: app.call_status_hook}, 'creating http client for call status hook');
+        logger.debug({call_hook: app.call_hook}, 'creating http client for call status hook');
      }
      else if (!app.notifier) {
        logger.debug('creating null call status hook');
@@ -258,8 +257,6 @@ router.post('/',
              callId: inviteReq.get('Call-ID'),
              accountSid,
              traceId: rootSpan.traceId
-            }, {
-              ...(account.enable_debug_log && {level: 'debug'})
            });
            app.requestor.logger = app.notifier.logger = sipLogger;
            const callInfo = new CallInfo({
@@ -293,8 +290,6 @@ router.post('/',
          },
          cbProvisional: (prov) => {
            const callStatus = prov.body ? CallStatus.EarlyMedia : CallStatus.Ringing;
-            // Update call-id for sbc outbound INVITE
-            cs.callInfo.sbcCallid = prov.get('X-CID');
            if ([180, 183].includes(prov.status) && prov.body) connectStream(prov.body);
            restDial.emit('callStatus', prov.status, !!prov.body);
            cs.emit('callStatusChange', {callStatus, sipStatus: prov.status});
--- a/lib/middleware.js
+++ b/lib/middleware.js
@@ -75,19 +75,13 @@ module.exports = function(srf, logger) {
      req.locals.application_sid = application_sid;
    }
    // check for call to queue
-    else if (uri.user?.startsWith('queue-') && req.locals.originatingUser && clientDb?.allow_direct_queue_calling) {
+    if (uri.user?.startsWith('queue-') && req.locals.originatingUser && clientDb?.allow_direct_queue_calling) {
      const queue_name = uri.user.match(/queue-(.*)/)[1];
      logger.debug(`got Queue from Request URI header: ${queue_name}`);
      req.locals.queue_name = queue_name;
    }
-    // check for call to conference
-    else if (uri.user?.startsWith('conference-') && req.locals.originatingUser && clientDb?.allow_direct_app_calling) {
-      const conference_id = uri.user.match(/conference-(.*)/)[1];
-      logger.debug(`got Conference from Request URI header: ${conference_id}`);
-      req.locals.conference_id = conference_id;
-    }
    // check for call to registered user
-    else if (!JAMBONES_DISABLE_DIRECT_P2P_CALL && req.locals.originatingUser && clientDb?.allow_direct_user_calling) {
+    if (!JAMBONES_DISABLE_DIRECT_P2P_CALL && req.locals.originatingUser && clientDb?.allow_direct_user_calling) {
      const arr = /^(.*)@(.*)/.exec(req.locals.originatingUser);
      if (arr) {
        const sipRealm = arr[2];
@@ -103,7 +97,7 @@ module.exports = function(srf, logger) {
    if (req.has('X-MS-Teams-Tenant-FQDN')) req.locals.msTeamsTenant = req.get('X-MS-Teams-Tenant-FQDN');
    if (req.has('X-Cisco-Recording-Participant')) {
      const ciscoParticipants = req.get('X-Cisco-Recording-Participant');
-      const regex = /sip:[a-zA-Z0-9]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-_]+/g;
+      const regex = /sip:[\d]+@[\d]+\.[\d]+\.[\d]+\.[\d]+/g;
      const sipURIs = ciscoParticipants.match(regex);
      logger.info(`X-Cisco-Recording-Participant : ${sipURIs} `);
      if (sipURIs && sipURIs.length > 0) {
@@ -187,20 +181,14 @@ module.exports = function(srf, logger) {

    const {span} = rootSpan.startChildSpan('lookupAccountDetails');
    try {
-      const accountDetail = await lookupAccountDetails(account_sid);
-      const account = accountDetail?.account;
-      req.locals.accountInfo = accountDetail;
-      req.locals.service_provider_sid = account?.service_provider_sid;
+      req.locals.accountInfo = await lookupAccountDetails(account_sid);
+      req.locals.service_provider_sid = req.locals.accountInfo?.account?.service_provider_sid;
      span.end();
-      if (!account?.is_active) {
+      if (!req.locals.accountInfo.account.is_active) {
        logger.info(`Account is inactive or suspended ${account_sid}`);
        // TODO: alert
        return res.send(503, {headers: {'X-Reason': 'Account exists but is inactive'}});
      }
-      // Change the default log level to debug
-      if (account?.enable_debug_log) {
-        req.locals.logger.level = 'debug';
-      }
      logger.debug({accountInfo: req.locals?.accountInfo?.account}, `retrieved account info for ${account_sid}`);
      next();
    } catch (err) {
@@ -249,9 +237,6 @@ module.exports = function(srf, logger) {
        logger.debug(`calling to registered user ${req.locals.called_user}, generating dial app`);
        app = createJambonzApp('user',
          {account_sid, name: req.locals.called_user, caller_id: req.locals.callingNumber});
-      } else if (req.locals.conference_id) {
-        logger.debug(`calling to conference ${req.locals.conference_id}, generating conference app`);
-        app = createJambonzApp('conference', {account_sid, name: req.locals.conference_id});
      } else if (req.locals.application_sid) {
        app = await lookupAppBySid(req.locals.application_sid);
      } else if (req.locals.originatingUser) {
@@ -358,17 +343,6 @@ module.exports = function(srf, logger) {
        direction: CallDirection.Inbound,
        traceId: rootSpan.traceId
      });
-      // if transferred call contains callInfo, let update original data to newly created callInfo in this instance.
-      if (app.transferredCall && app.callInfo) {
-        const {direction, callerName, from, to, originatingSipIp, originatingSipTrunkName} = app.callInfo;
-        req.locals.callInfo.direction = direction;
-        req.locals.callInfo.callerName = callerName;
-        req.locals.callInfo.from = from;
-        req.locals.callInfo.to = to;
-        req.locals.callInfo.originatingSipIp = originatingSipIp;
-        req.locals.callInfo.originatingSipTrunkName = originatingSipTrunkName;
-        delete app.callInfo;
-      }
      next();
    } catch (err) {
      span.end();
@@ -385,7 +359,7 @@ module.exports = function(srf, logger) {
    const {rootSpan, siprec, application:app} = req.locals;
    let span;
    try {
-      if (app.tasks && app.tasks?.length > 0 && !JAMBONES_MYSQL_REFRESH_TTL) {
+      if (app.tasks && !JAMBONES_MYSQL_REFRESH_TTL) {
        app.tasks = normalizeJambones(logger, app.tasks).map((tdata) => makeTask(logger, tdata));
        if (0 === app.tasks.length) throw new Error('no application provided');
        return next();
--- a/lib/session/adulting-call-session.js
+++ b/lib/session/adulting-call-session.js
@@ -53,24 +53,16 @@ class AdultingCallSession extends CallSession {
  }

  _callerHungup() {
-    this._hangup('caller');
-  }
-
-  _jambonzHangup() {
-    this._hangup();
-  }
-
-  _hangup(terminatedBy = 'jambonz') {
    if (this.dlg.connectTime) {
      const duration = moment().diff(this.dlg.connectTime, 'seconds');
-      this.rootSpan.setAttributes({'call.termination': `hangup by ${terminatedBy}`});
-      this.callInfo.callTerminationBy = terminatedBy;
+      this.rootSpan.setAttributes({'call.termination': 'hangup by caller'});
+      this.callInfo.callTerminationBy = 'caller';
      this.emit('callStatusChange', {
        callStatus: CallStatus.Completed,
        duration
      });
    }
-    this.logger.info(`InboundCallSession: ${terminatedBy} hung up`);
+    this.logger.info('InboundCallSession: caller hung up');
    this._callReleased();
    this.req.removeAllListeners('cancel');
  }
--- a/lib/session/call-info.js
+++ b/lib/session/call-info.js
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ class CallInfo {
      this.sipStatus = 100;
      this.sipReason = 'Trying';
      this.callStatus = CallStatus.Trying;
-      this.sbcCallid = req.get('X-CID');
      this.originatingSipIp = req.get('X-Forwarded-For');
      this.originatingSipTrunkName = req.get('X-Originating-Carrier');
      const {siprec} = req.locals;
@@ -130,7 +129,6 @@ class CallInfo {
      from: this.from,
      to: this.to,
      callId: this.callId,
-      sbcCallid: this.sbcCallid,
      sipStatus: this.sipStatus,
      sipReason: this.sipReason,
      callStatus: this.callStatus,
--- a/lib/session/call-session.js
+++ b/lib/session/call-session.js
--- a/lib/session/confirm-call-session.js
+++ b/lib/session/confirm-call-session.js
@@ -34,9 +34,6 @@ class ConfirmCallSession extends CallSession {
  _callerHungup() {
  }

-  _jambonzHangup() {
-  }
-

 }

--- a/lib/session/inbound-call-session.js
+++ b/lib/session/inbound-call-session.js
@@ -67,29 +67,15 @@ class InboundCallSession extends CallSession {
   * This is invoked when the caller hangs up, in order to calculate the call duration.
   */
  _callerHungup() {
-    this._hangup('caller');
-  }
-
-  _jambonzHangup() {
-    this.dlg?.destroy();
-    // kill current task or wakeup the call session.
-    this._callReleased();
-  }
-
-  _hangup(terminatedBy = 'jambonz') {
-    if (this.dlg === null) {
-      this.logger.info('InboundCallSession:_hangup - race condition, dlg cleared by app hangup');
-      return;
-    }
-    this.logger.info(`InboundCallSession: ${terminatedBy} hung up`);
    assert(this.dlg.connectTime);
    const duration = moment().diff(this.dlg.connectTime, 'seconds');
-    this.rootSpan.setAttributes({'call.termination': `hangup by ${terminatedBy}`});
-    this.callInfo.callTerminationBy = terminatedBy;
+    this.rootSpan.setAttributes({'call.termination': 'hangup by caller'});
+    this.callInfo.callTerminationBy = 'caller';
    this.emit('callStatusChange', {
      callStatus: CallStatus.Completed,
      duration
    });
+    this.logger.info('InboundCallSession: caller hung up');
    this._callReleased();
    this.req.removeAllListeners('cancel');
  }
--- a/lib/session/rest-call-session.js
+++ b/lib/session/rest-call-session.js
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 const CallSession = require('./call-session');
 const {CallStatus} = require('../utils/constants');
 const moment = require('moment');
+
 /**
 * @classdesc Subclass of CallSession.  This represents a CallSession that is
 * created for an outbound call that is initiated via the REST API.
@@ -41,29 +42,20 @@ class RestCallSession extends CallSession {
  setDialog(dlg) {
    this.dlg = dlg;
    dlg.on('destroy', this._callerHungup.bind(this));
-    dlg.on('refer', this._onRefer.bind(this));
-    dlg.on('modify', this._onReinvite.bind(this));
    this.wrapDialog(dlg);
  }
+
  /**
   * This is invoked when the called party hangs up, in order to calculate the call duration.
   */
  _callerHungup() {
-    this._hangup('caller');
-  }
-
-  _jambonzHangup() {
-    this._hangup();
-  }
-
-  _hangup(terminatedBy = 'jambonz') {
    if (this.restDialTask) {
      this.restDialTask.turnOffAmd();
    }
-    this.callInfo.callTerminationBy = terminatedBy;
+    this.callInfo.callTerminationBy = 'caller';
    const duration = moment().diff(this.dlg.connectTime, 'seconds');
    this.emit('callStatusChange', {callStatus: CallStatus.Completed, duration});
-    this.logger.debug(`RestCallSession: called party hung up by ${terminatedBy}`);
+    this.logger.debug('RestCallSession: called party hung up');
    this._callReleased();
  }

--- a/lib/tasks/answer.js
+++ b/lib/tasks/answer.js
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-const Task = require('./task');
-const {TaskName, TaskPreconditions} = require('../utils/constants');
-
-/**
- * Answer the call.
- * Note: This is rarely used, as the call is typically answered automatically when required by the app,
- * but it can be useful to force an answer before a pause in some cases
- */
-class TaskAnswer extends Task {
-  constructor(logger, opts) {
-    super(logger, opts);
-    this.preconditions = TaskPreconditions.Endpoint;
-  }
-
-  get name() { return TaskName.Answer; }
-
-  async exec(cs) {
-    super.exec(cs);
-  }
-}
-
-module.exports = TaskAnswer;
--- a/lib/tasks/conference.js
+++ b/lib/tasks/conference.js
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ const { normalizeJambones } = require('@jambonz/verb-specifications');
 const makeTask = require('./make_task');
 const bent = require('bent');
 const assert = require('assert');
-const HttpRequestor = require('../utils/http-requestor');
 const WAIT = 'wait';
 const JOIN = 'join';
 const START = 'start';
@@ -61,8 +60,6 @@ class Conference extends Task {

    this.emitter = new Emitter();
    this.results = {};
-    this.coaching = [];
-    this.speakOnlyTo = this.data.speakOnlyTo;

    // transferred from another server in order to bridge to a local caller?
    if (this.data._ && this.data._.connectTime) {
@@ -118,9 +115,7 @@ class Conference extends Task {
    this.emitter.emit('kill');
    await this._doFinalMemberCheck(cs);
    if (this.ep && this.ep.connected) {
-      // drachtio-fsmrf override esl::event::CUSTOM to conference join listerner, After finish the conference
-      // the application need to reset the esl::event::CUSTOM for another use on the same endpoint
-      this.ep.resetEslCustomEvent();
+      this.ep.conn.removeAllListeners('esl::event::CUSTOM::*');
      this.ep.api(`conference ${this.confName} kick ${this.memberId}`)
        .catch((err) => this.logger.info({err}, 'Error kicking participant'));
    }
@@ -137,10 +132,15 @@ class Conference extends Task {
   * @param {SipDialog} dlg
   */
  async _init(cs, dlg) {
+    const friendlyName = this.confName;
    const {createHash, retrieveHash} = cs.srf.locals.dbHelpers;
-    this.friendlyName = this.confName;
    this.confName = `conf:${cs.accountSid}:${this.confName}`;

+    this.statusParams = Object.assign({
+      conferenceSid: this.confName,
+      friendlyName
+    }, cs.callInfo);
+
    // check if conference is in progress
    const obj = await retrieveHash(this.confName);
    if (obj) {
@@ -348,29 +348,16 @@ class Conference extends Task {
      Object.assign(opts, {flags: {
        ...(this.endConferenceOnExit && {endconf: true}),
        ...(this.startConferenceOnEnter && {moderator: true}),
-        //https://developer.signalwire.com/freeswitch/FreeSWITCH-Explained/Modules/mod_conference_3965534/
-        // mute |	Enter conference muted
-        ...((this.joinMuted || this.speakOnlyTo) && {mute: true}),
+        ...(this.joinMuted && {joinMuted: true}),
      }});
-
-      /**
-       * Note on the above: if we are joining in "coaching" mode (ie only going to heard by a subset of participants)
-       * then we join muted temporarily, and then unmute ourselves once we have identified the subset of participants
-       * to whom we will be speaking.
-       */
    }

    try {
      const {memberId, confUuid} = await this.ep.join(this.confName, opts);
      this.logger.debug({memberId, confUuid}, `Conference:_joinConference: successfully joined ${this.confName}`);
-      this.memberId = parseInt(memberId, 10);
+      this.memberId = memberId;
      this.confUuid = confUuid;

-      // set a tag for this member, if provided
-      if (this.data.memberTag) {
-        this.setMemberTag(this.data.memberTag);
-      }
-
      cs.setConferenceDetails(memberId, this.confName, confUuid);
      const response = await this.ep.api('conference', [this.confName, 'get', 'count']);
      if (response.body && /\d+/.test(response.body)) this.participantCount = parseInt(response.body);
@@ -397,9 +384,6 @@ class Conference extends Task {
          .catch((err) => {});
      }

-      if (this.speakOnlyTo) {
-        this.setCoachMode(this.speakOnlyTo);
-      }
    } catch (err) {
      this.logger.error(err, `Failed to join conference ${this.confName}`);
      throw err;
@@ -444,15 +428,7 @@ class Conference extends Task {
    }
  }

-  doConferenceMute(cs, opts) {
-    assert (cs.isInConference);
-
-    const mute = opts.conf_mute_status === 'mute';
-    this.ep.api(`conference ${this.confName} ${mute ? 'mute' : 'unmute'} ${this.memberId}`)
-      .catch((err) => this.logger.info({err}, 'Error muting or unmuting participant'));
-  }
-
-  doConferenceHold(cs, opts) {
+  async doConferenceHold(cs, opts) {
    assert (cs.isInConference);

    const {conf_hold_status, wait_hook} = opts;
@@ -489,46 +465,6 @@ class Conference extends Task {
    }
  }

-  async doConferenceParticipantAction(cs, opts) {
-    const {action, tag, wait_hook } = opts;
-
-    switch (action) {
-      case 'tag':
-        await this.setMemberTag(tag);
-        break;
-      case 'untag':
-        await this.clearMemberTag();
-        break;
-      case 'coach':
-        await this.setCoachMode(tag);
-        break;
-      case 'uncoach':
-        await this.clearCoachMode();
-        break;
-      case 'hold':
-        this.doConferenceHold(cs, {
-          conf_hold_status: 'hold',
-          ...(wait_hook && {wait_hook})
-        });
-        break;
-      case 'unhold':
-        this.doConferenceHold(cs, {conf_hold_status: 'unhold'});
-        break;
-      case 'mute':
-        this.doConferenceMute(cs, {conf_mute_status: 'mute'});
-        break;
-      case 'unmute':
-        this.doConferenceMute(cs, {conf_mute_status: 'unmute'});
-        break;
-      case 'kick':
-        this.kickMember(cs);
-        break;
-      default:
-        this.logger.info(`Conference:doConferenceParticipantAction - unhandled action ${action}`);
-        break;
-    }
-  }
-
  async _doWaitHookWhileOnHold(cs, dlg, wait_hook) {
    do {
      try {
@@ -546,13 +482,6 @@ class Conference extends Task {
    } while (!this.killed && this.conf_hold_status === 'hold');
  }

-  /**
-   * mute or unmute side of the call
-   */
-  mute(callSid, doMute) {
-    this.doConferenceMute(this.callSession, {conf_mute_status: doMute});
-  }
-
  /**
   * Add ourselves to the waitlist of sessions to be notified once
   * the conference starts
@@ -582,7 +511,7 @@ class Conference extends Task {
  _normalizeHook(cs, hook) {
    if (typeof hook === 'object') return hook;
    const url = hook.startsWith('/') ?
-      `${cs.application.requestor instanceof HttpRequestor ? cs.application.requestor.baseUrl : ''}${hook}` :
+      `${cs.application.requestor.baseUrl}${hook}` :
      hook;

    return { url } ;
@@ -601,7 +530,7 @@ class Conference extends Task {
      const response = await this.ep.api('conference', [this.confName, 'get', 'count']);
      if (response.body && confNoMatch(response.body)) this.participantCount = 0;
      else if (response.body && /^\d+$/.test(response.body)) this.participantCount = parseInt(response.body) - 1;
-      this.logger.debug(`Conference:_doFinalMemberCheck conference count ${this.participantCount}`);
+      this.logger.debug({response}, `Conference:_doFinalMemberCheck conference count ${this.participantCount}`);
    } catch (err) {
      this.logger.info({err}, 'Conference:_doFinalMemberCheck error retrieving count (we were probably kicked');
    }
@@ -611,7 +540,7 @@ class Conference extends Task {
     * when we hang up as the last member, the current member count = 1
     * when we are kicked out of the call when the moderator leaves, the member count = 0
     */
-    if (this.participantCount === 0 || this.endConferenceOnExit) {
+    if (this.participantCount === 0) {
      const {deleteKey} = cs.srf.locals.dbHelpers;
      try {
        this._notifyConferenceEvent(cs, 'end');
@@ -619,8 +548,7 @@ class Conference extends Task {
        this.logger.info(`conf ${this.confName} deprovisioned: ${removed ? 'success' : 'failure'}`);
      }
      catch (err) {
-        this.logger.error(err, `Error deprovisioning conference ${this.confName},
-          might be the conference already cleaned by another moderator`);
+        this.logger.error(err, `Error deprovisioning conference ${this.confName}`);
      }
    }
  }
@@ -697,24 +625,8 @@ class Conference extends Task {
      if (!params.time) params.time = (new Date()).toISOString();
      if (!params.members && typeof this.participantCount === 'number') params.members = this.participantCount;
      cs.application.requestor
-        .request(
-          'verb:hook',
-          this.statusHook,
-          Object.assign(
-            params,
-            Object.assign(
-              {
-                conferenceSid: this.confName,
-                friendlyName: this.friendlyName,
-              },
-              cs.callInfo.toJSON()
-            ),
-            httpHeaders
-          )
-        )
-        .catch((err) =>
-          this.logger.info(err, 'Conference:notifyConferenceEvent - error')
-        );
+        .request('verb:hook', this.statusHook, Object.assign(params, this.statusParams, httpHeaders))
+        .catch((err) => this.logger.info(err, 'Conference:notifyConferenceEvent - error'));
    }
  }

@@ -730,19 +642,11 @@ class Conference extends Task {
  }

  // conference event handlers
-  _onAddMember(logger, cs, evt) {
-    const memberId = parseInt(evt.getHeader('Member-ID')) ;
-    if (this.speakOnlyTo) {
-      logger.debug(`Conference:_onAddMember - member ${memberId} added to ${this.confName}, updating coaching mode`);
-      this.setCoachMode(this.speakOnlyTo).catch(() => {});
-    }
-    else logger.debug(`Conference:_onAddMember - member ${memberId} added to conference ${this.confName}`);
-  }
  _onDelMember(logger, cs, evt) {
    const memberId = parseInt(evt.getHeader('Member-ID')) ;
    this.participantCount = parseInt(evt.getHeader('Conference-Size'));
    if (memberId === this.memberId) {
-      logger.info(`Conference:_onDelMember - I was dropped from conference ${this.confName}, task is complete`);
+      this.logger.info(`Conference:_onDelMember - I was dropped from conference ${this.confName}, task is complete`);
      this.replaceEndpointAndEnd(cs);
    }
  }
@@ -771,99 +675,6 @@ class Conference extends Task {
    }
  }

-  _onTag(logger, cs, evt) {
-    const memberId = parseInt(evt.getHeader('Member-ID')) ;
-    const tag = evt.getHeader('Tag') || '';
-    if (memberId !== this.memberId && this.speakOnlyTo) {
-      logger.info(`Conference:_onTag - member ${memberId} set tag to '${tag }'; updating coach mode accordingly`);
-      this.setCoachMode(this.speakOnlyTo).catch(() => {});
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Set the conference to "coaching" mode, where the audio of the participant is only heard
-   * by a subset of the participants in the conference.
-   * We do this by first getting all of the members who do *not* have this tag, and then
-   * we configure this members audio to not be sent to them.
-   * @param {string} speakOnlyTo - tag of the members who should receive our audio
-   *
-   * N.B.: this feature requires jambonz patches to freeswitch mod_conference
-   */
-  async setCoachMode(speakOnlyTo) {
-    this.speakOnlyTo = speakOnlyTo;
-    if (!this.memberId) {
-      this.logger.info('Conference:_setCoachMode: no member id yet');
-      return;
-    }
-    try {
-      const members = (await this.ep.getNonMatchingConfParticipants(this.confName, speakOnlyTo))
-        .filter((m) => m !== this.memberId);
-      if (members.length === 0) {
-        this.logger.info({members}, 'Conference:_setCoachMode: all participants have the tag, so all will hear me');
-        if (this.coaching.length) {
-          await this.ep.api('conference', [this.confName, 'relate', this.memberId, this.coaching.join(','), 'clear']);
-          this.coaching = [];
-        }
-      }
-      else {
-        const memberList = members.join(',');
-        this.logger.info(`Conference:_setCoachMode: my audio will NOT be sent to ${memberList}`);
-        await this.ep.api('conference', [this.confName, 'relate', this.memberId, memberList, 'nospeak']);
-        this.coaching = members;
-      }
-    } catch (err) {
-      this.logger.error({err, speakOnlyTo}, '_setCoachMode: Error');
-    }
-  }
-
-  async clearCoachMode() {
-    if (!this.memberId) return;
-    try {
-      if (this.coaching.length === 0) {
-        this.logger.info('Conference:_clearCoachMode: no coaching mode to clear');
-      }
-      else {
-        const memberList = this.coaching.join(',');
-        this.logger.info(`Conference:_clearCoachMode: now sending my audio to all, including ${memberList}`);
-        await this.ep.api('conference', [this.confName, 'relate', this.memberId, memberList, 'clear']);
-      }
-      this.speakOnlyTo = null;
-      this.coaching = [];
-    } catch (err) {
-      this.logger.error({err}, '_clearCoachMode: Error');
-    }
-  }
-
-  async setMemberTag(tag) {
-    try {
-      await this.ep.api('conference', [this.confName, 'tag', this.memberId, tag]);
-      this.logger.info(`Conference:setMemberTag: set tag for ${this.memberId} to ${tag}`);
-      this.memberTag = tag;
-    } catch (err) {
-      this.logger.error({err}, `Error setting tag for ${this.memberId} to ${tag}`);
-    }
-  }
-
-  async clearMemberTag() {
-    try {
-      await this.ep.api('conference', [this.confName, 'tag', this.memberId]);
-      this.logger.info(`Conference:setMemberTag: clearing tag for ${this.memberId}`);
-      this.memberTag = null;
-    } catch (err) {
-      this.logger.error({err}, `Error clearing tag for ${this.memberId}`);
-    }
-  }
-
-  async kickMember(cs) {
-    assert(cs.isInConference);
-    try {
-      await this.ep.api('conference', [this.confName, 'kick', this.memberId]);
-      this.logger.info(`Conference:kickMember: kick ${this.memberId} out of conference ${this.confName}`);
-    } catch (err) {
-      this.logger.error({err}, `Error kicking member out of conference for ${this.memberId}`);
-    }
-  }
-
 }

 module.exports = Conference;
--- a/lib/tasks/config.js
+++ b/lib/tasks/config.js
@@ -1,22 +1,16 @@
 const Task = require('./task');
 const {TaskName, TaskPreconditions} = require('../utils/constants');
-const parseDecibels = require('../utils/parse-decibels');

 class TaskConfig extends Task {
  constructor(logger, opts) {
    super(logger, opts);
-
    [
      'synthesizer',
      'recognizer',
      'bargeIn',
      'record',
      'listen',
-      'transcribe',
-      'fillerNoise',
-      'actionHookDelayAction',
-      'boostAudioSignal',
-      'vad'
+      'transcribe'
    ].forEach((k) => this[k] = this.data[k] || {});

    if ('notifyEvents' in this.data) {
@@ -34,8 +28,7 @@ class TaskConfig extends Task {
        'finishOnKey', 'input', 'numDigits', 'minDigits', 'maxDigits',
        'interDigitTimeout', 'bargein', 'dtmfBargein', 'minBargeinWordCount', 'actionHook'
      ].forEach((k) => {
-        const val = this.bargeIn[k];
-        if (val !== undefined && val !== null) this.gatherOpts[k] = val;
+        if (this.bargeIn[k]) this.gatherOpts[k] = this.bargeIn[k];
      });
    }
    if (this.transcribe?.enable) {
@@ -56,7 +49,6 @@ class TaskConfig extends Task {
      this.record?.action ||
      this.listen?.url ||
      this.data.amd ||
-      'boostAudioSignal' in this.data ||
      this.transcribe?.enable) ?
      TaskPreconditions.Endpoint :
      TaskPreconditions.None;
@@ -71,10 +63,6 @@ class TaskConfig extends Task {
  get hasRecording() { return Object.keys(this.record).length; }
  get hasListen() { return Object.keys(this.listen).length; }
  get hasTranscribe() { return Object.keys(this.transcribe).length; }
-  get hasDub() { return Object.keys(this.dub).length; }
-  get hasVad() { return Object.keys(this.vad).length; }
-  get hasFillerNoise() { return Object.keys(this.fillerNoise).length; }
-  get hasReferHook() { return Object.keys(this.data).includes('referHook'); }

  get summary() {
    const phrase = [];
@@ -84,13 +72,13 @@ class TaskConfig extends Task {

    if (this.bargeIn.enable) phrase.push('enable barge-in');
    if (this.hasSynthesizer) {
-      const {vendor:v, language:l, voice, label} = this.synthesizer;
-      const s = `{${v},${l},${voice},${label || 'None'}}`;
+      const {vendor:v, language:l, voice} = this.synthesizer;
+      const s = `{${v},${l},${voice}}`;
      phrase.push(`set synthesizer${s}`);
    }
    if (this.hasRecognizer) {
-      const {vendor:v, language:l, label} = this.recognizer;
-      const s = `{${v},${l},${label || 'None'}}`;
+      const {vendor:v, language:l} = this.recognizer;
+      const s = `{${v},${l}}`;
      phrase.push(`set recognizer${s}`);
    }
    if (this.hasRecording) phrase.push(this.record.action);
@@ -100,12 +88,9 @@ class TaskConfig extends Task {
    if (this.hasTranscribe) {
      phrase.push(this.transcribe.enable ? `transcribe ${this.transcribe.transcriptionHook}` : 'stop transcribe');
    }
-    if (this.hasFillerNoise) phrase.push(`fillerNoise ${this.fillerNoise.enable ? 'on' : 'off'}`);
    if (this.data.amd) phrase.push('enable amd');
    if (this.notifyEvents) phrase.push(`event notification ${this.notifyEvents ? 'on' : 'off'}`);
    if (this.onHoldMusic) phrase.push(`onHoldMusic: ${this.onHoldMusic}`);
-    if ('boostAudioSignal' in this.data) phrase.push(`setGain ${this.data.boostAudioSignal}`);
-    if (this.hasReferHook) phrase.push('set referHook');
    return `${this.name}{${phrase.join(',')}}`;
  }

@@ -144,8 +129,9 @@ class TaskConfig extends Task {
      cs.speechSynthesisVendor = this.synthesizer.vendor !== 'default'
        ? this.synthesizer.vendor
        : cs.speechSynthesisVendor;
-      cs.speechSynthesisLabel = this.synthesizer.label === 'default'
-        ? cs.speechSynthesisLabel : this.synthesizer.label;
+      cs.speechSynthesisLabel = this.synthesizer.label !== 'default'
+        ? this.synthesizer.label
+        : cs.speechSynthesisLabel;
      cs.speechSynthesisLanguage = this.synthesizer.language !== 'default'
        ?  this.synthesizer.language
        : cs.speechSynthesisLanguage;
@@ -157,16 +143,15 @@ class TaskConfig extends Task {
      cs.fallbackSpeechSynthesisVendor = this.synthesizer.fallbackVendor !== 'default'
        ? this.synthesizer.fallbackVendor
        : cs.fallbackSpeechSynthesisVendor;
-      cs.fallbackSpeechSynthesisLabel = this.synthesizer.fallbackLabel === 'default'
-        ? cs.fallbackSpeechSynthesisLabel : this.synthesizer.fallbackLabel;
+      cs.fallbackSpeechSynthesisLabel = this.synthesizer.fallbackLabel !== 'default'
+        ? this.synthesizer.fallbackLabel
+        : cs.fallbackSpeechSynthesisLabel;
      cs.fallbackSpeechSynthesisLanguage = this.synthesizer.fallbackLanguage !== 'default'
        ?  this.synthesizer.fallbackLanguage
        : cs.fallbackSpeechSynthesisLanguage;
      cs.fallbackSpeechSynthesisVoice = this.synthesizer.fallbackVoice !== 'default'
        ? this.synthesizer.fallbackVoice
        : cs.fallbackSpeechSynthesisVoice;
-      // new vendor is set, reset fallback vendor
-      cs.hasFallbackTts = false;
      this.logger.info({synthesizer: this.synthesizer}, 'Config: updated synthesizer');
    }
    if (this.hasRecognizer) {
@@ -174,8 +159,9 @@ class TaskConfig extends Task {
      cs.speechRecognizerVendor = this.recognizer.vendor !== 'default'
        ? this.recognizer.vendor
        : cs.speechRecognizerVendor;
-      cs.speechRecognizerLabel = this.recognizer.label === 'default'
-        ? cs.speechRecognizerLabel : this.recognizer.label;
+      cs.speechRecognizerLabel = this.recognizer.label !== 'default'
+        ? this.recognizer.label
+        : cs.speechRecognizerLabel;
      cs.speechRecognizerLanguage = this.recognizer.language !== 'default'
        ? this.recognizer.language
        : cs.speechRecognizerLanguage;
@@ -184,9 +170,9 @@ class TaskConfig extends Task {
      cs.fallbackSpeechRecognizerVendor = this.recognizer.fallbackVendor !== 'default'
        ? this.recognizer.fallbackVendor
        : cs.fallbackSpeechRecognizerVendor;
-      cs.fallbackSpeechRecognizerLabel = this.recognizer.fallbackLabel === 'default' ?
-        cs.fallbackSpeechRecognizerLabel :
-        this.recognizer.fallbackLabel;
+      cs.fallbackSpeechRecognizerLabel = this.recognizer.fallbackLabel !== 'default'
+        ? this.recognizer.fallbackLabel
+        : cs.fallbackSpeechRecognizerLabel;
      cs.fallbackSpeechRecognizerLanguage = this.recognizer.fallbackLanguage !== 'default'
        ? this.recognizer.fallbackLanguage
        : cs.fallbackSpeechRecognizerLanguage;
@@ -210,8 +196,6 @@ class TaskConfig extends Task {
      if ('punctuation' in this.recognizer) {
        cs.globalSttPunctuation = this.recognizer.punctuation;
      }
-      // new vendor is set, reset fallback vendor
-      cs.hasFallbackAsr = false;
      this.logger.info({
        recognizer: this.recognizer,
        isContinuousAsr: cs.isContinuousAsr
@@ -252,14 +236,12 @@ class TaskConfig extends Task {
    }
    if (this.hasTranscribe) {
      if (this.transcribe.enable) {
-        if (!this.transcribeOpts.recognizer) {
-          this.transcribeOpts.recognizer = this.hasRecognizer ?
-            this.recognizer :
-            {
-              vendor: cs.speechRecognizerVendor,
-              language: cs.speechRecognizerLanguage
-            };
-        }
+        this.transcribeOpts.recognizer = this.hasRecognizer ?
+          this.recognizer :
+          {
+            vendor: cs.speechRecognizerVendor,
+            language: cs.speechRecognizerLanguage
+          };
        this.logger.debug(this.transcribeOpts, 'Config: enabling transcribe');
        cs.startBackgroundTask('transcribe', this.transcribeOpts);
      } else {
@@ -267,44 +249,9 @@ class TaskConfig extends Task {
        cs.stopBackgroundTask('transcribe');
      }
    }
-    if (Object.keys(this.actionHookDelayAction).length !== 0) {
-      cs.actionHookDelayProperties = this.actionHookDelayAction;
-    }
    if (this.data.sipRequestWithinDialogHook) {
      cs.sipRequestWithinDialogHook = this.data.sipRequestWithinDialogHook;
    }
-
-    if ('boostAudioSignal' in this.data) {
-      const db = parseDecibels(this.data.boostAudioSignal);
-      this.logger.info(`Config: boosting audio signal by ${db} dB`);
-      const args = [ep.uuid, 'setGain', db];
-      ep.api('uuid_dub', args).catch((err) => {
-        this.logger.error(err, 'Error boosting audio signal');
-      });
-    }
-
-    if (this.hasFillerNoise) {
-      const {enable, ...opts} = this.fillerNoise;
-      this.logger.info({fillerNoise: this.fillerNoise}, 'Config: fillerNoise');
-      if (!enable) cs.disableFillerNoise();
-      else {
-        cs.enableFillerNoise(opts);
-      }
-    }
-
-    if (this.hasVad) {
-      cs.vad = {
-        enable: this.vad.enable || false,
-        voiceMs: this.vad.voiceMs || 250,
-        silenceMs: this.vad.silenceMs || 150,
-        strategy: this.vad.strategy || 'one-shot',
-        mode: (this.vad.mode !== undefined && this.vad.mode !== null) ? this.vad.mode : 2
-      };
-    }
-
-    if (this.hasReferHook) {
-      cs.referHook = this.data.referHook;
-    }
  }

  async kill(cs) {
--- a/lib/tasks/dequeue.js
+++ b/lib/tasks/dequeue.js
@@ -73,8 +73,7 @@ class TaskDequeue extends Task {
        try {
          let url;
          if (this.callSid) {
-            const r = await retrieveByPatternSortedSet(this.queueName, `*${this.callSid}`);
-            url = r[0];
+            url = await retrieveByPatternSortedSet(this.queueName, `*${this.callSid}`);
          } else {
            url = await retrieveFromSortedSet(this.queueName);
          }
--- a/lib/tasks/dial.js
+++ b/lib/tasks/dial.js
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ const sessionTracker = require('../session/session-tracker');
 const DtmfCollector = require('../utils/dtmf-collector');
 const ConfirmCallSession = require('../session/confirm-call-session');
 const dbUtils = require('../utils/db-utils');
-const parseDecibels = require('../utils/parse-decibels');
 const debug = require('debug')('jambonz:feature-server');
 const {parseUri} = require('drachtio-srf');
 const {ANCHOR_MEDIA_ALWAYS, JAMBONZ_DISABLE_DIAL_PAI_HEADER} = require('../config');
@@ -82,8 +81,6 @@ function filterAndLimit(logger, tasks) {
  return unique;
 }

-const sleepFor = (ms) => new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(() => resolve(), ms));
-
 class TaskDial extends Task {
  constructor(logger, opts) {
    super(logger, opts);
@@ -103,8 +100,6 @@ class TaskDial extends Task {
    this.referHook = this.data.referHook;
    this.dtmfHook = this.data.dtmfHook;
    this.proxy = this.data.proxy;
-    this.tag = this.data.tag;
-    this.boostAudioSignal = this.data.boostAudioSignal;

    if (this.dtmfHook) {
      const {parentDtmfCollector, childDtmfCollector} = parseDtmfOptions(logger, this.data.dtmfCapture || {});
@@ -122,9 +117,6 @@ class TaskDial extends Task {
    if (this.data.transcribe) {
      this.transcribeTask = makeTask(logger, {'transcribe' : this.data.transcribe}, this);
    }
-    if (this.data.dub && Array.isArray(this.data.dub) && this.data.dub.length > 0) {
-      this.dubTasks = this.data.dub.map((d) => makeTask(logger, {'dub': d}, this));
-    }

    this.results = {};
    this.bridged = false;
@@ -156,7 +148,6 @@ class TaskDial extends Task {
    this.cs.onHoldMusic ||
    ANCHOR_MEDIA_ALWAYS ||
    this.listenTask ||
-    this.dubTasks ||
    this.transcribeTask ||
    this.startAmd;

@@ -205,16 +196,7 @@ class TaskDial extends Task {
      else {
        this.epOther = cs.ep;
        if (this.dialMusic && this.epOther && this.epOther.connected) {
-          (async() => {
-            do {
-              try {
-                await this.epOther.play(this.dialMusic);
-              } catch (err) {
-                this.logger.error(err, `TaskDial:exec error playing ${this.dialMusic}`);
-                await sleepFor(1000);
-              }
-            } while (!this.killed || !this.bridged);
-          })();
+          this.epOther.play(this.dialMusic).catch((err) => {});
        }
      }
      if (!this.killed) await this._attemptCalls(cs);
@@ -340,17 +322,15 @@ class TaskDial extends Task {

        const to = parseUri(req.getParsedHeader('Refer-To').uri);
        const by = parseUri(req.getParsedHeader('Referred-By').uri);
-        const referredBy = req.get('Referred-By');
-        const userAgent = req.get('User-Agent');
        this.logger.info({to}, 'refer to parsed');
        const json = await cs.requestor.request('verb:hook', this.referHook, {
          ...(callInfo.toJSON()),
          refer_details: {
            sip_refer_to: req.get('Refer-To'),
+            sip_referred_by: req.get('Referred-By'),
+            sip_user_agent: req.get('User-Agent'),
            refer_to_user: to.scheme === 'tel' ? to.number : to.user,
-            ...(referredBy && {sip_referred_by: referredBy}),
-            ...(userAgent && {sip_user_agent: userAgent}),
-            ...(by && {referred_by_user: by.scheme === 'tel' ? by.number : by.user}),
+            referred_by_user: by.scheme === 'tel' ? by.number : by.user,
            referring_call_sid,
            referred_call_sid
          }
@@ -381,7 +361,6 @@ class TaskDial extends Task {
        res.send(202);
        this.logger.info('DialTask:handleRefer - sent 202 Accepted');
      } catch (err) {
-        this.logger.info({err}, 'DialTask:handleRefer - error processing incoming REFER');
        res.send(err.statusCode || 501);
      }
    }
@@ -487,7 +466,7 @@ class TaskDial extends Task {
  }

  async _attemptCalls(cs) {
-    const {req, callInfo, direction, srf} = cs;
+    const {req, srf} = cs;
    const {getSBC} = srf.locals;
    const {lookupTeamsByAccount, lookupAccountBySid} = srf.locals.dbHelpers;
    const {lookupCarrier, lookupCarrierByPhoneNumber} = dbUtils(this.logger, cs.srf);
@@ -499,11 +478,8 @@ class TaskDial extends Task {
    this.headers = {
      'X-Account-Sid': cs.accountSid,
      ...(req && req.has('X-CID') && {'X-CID': req.get('X-CID')}),
-      ...(direction === 'outbound' && callInfo.sbcCallid && {'X-CID': callInfo.sbcCallid}),
-      ...(!JAMBONZ_DISABLE_DIAL_PAI_HEADER && req && {
-        ...(req.has('P-Asserted-Identity') && {'P-Asserted-Identity': req.get('P-Asserted-Identity')}),
-        ...(req.has('Privacy') && {'Privacy': req.get('Privacy')}),
-      }),
+      ...(req && req.has('P-Asserted-Identity') && !JAMBONZ_DISABLE_DIAL_PAI_HEADER &&
+        {'P-Asserted-Identity': req.get('P-Asserted-Identity')}),
      ...(req && req.has('X-Voip-Carrier-Sid') && {'X-Voip-Carrier-Sid': req.get('X-Voip-Carrier-Sid')}),
      // Put headers at the end to make sure opt.headers override all default behavior.
      ...this.headers
@@ -574,9 +550,9 @@ class TaskDial extends Task {
          const str = this.callerId || req.callingNumber || '';
          const callingNumber = str.startsWith('+') ? str.substring(1) : str;
          const voip_carrier_sid = await lookupCarrierByPhoneNumber(cs.accountSid, callingNumber);
+          this.logger.info(
+            `Dial:_attemptCalls: selected ${voip_carrier_sid} for requested phone number: ${callingNumber}`);
          if (voip_carrier_sid) {
-            this.logger.info(
-              `Dial:_attemptCalls: selected voip_carrier_sid ${voip_carrier_sid} for callingNumber: ${callingNumber}`);
            opts.headers['X-Requested-Carrier-Sid'] = voip_carrier_sid;
          }
        }
@@ -618,7 +594,6 @@ class TaskDial extends Task {
                dialCallStatus: obj.callStatus,
                dialSipStatus: obj.sipStatus,
                dialCallSid: sd.callSid,
-                dialSbcCallid: sd.callInfo.sbcCallid
              });
            }
            switch (obj.callStatus) {
@@ -654,8 +629,6 @@ class TaskDial extends Task {
              await this._connectSingleDial(cs, sd);
            } catch (err) {
              this.logger.info({err}, 'Dial:_attemptCalls - Error calling _connectSingleDial ');
-              sd.removeAllListeners();
-              this.kill(cs);
            }
          })
          .on('decline', () => {
@@ -805,17 +778,6 @@ class TaskDial extends Task {
      dialCallSid: sd.callSid,
    });

-    if (this.dubTasks) {
-      for (const dub of this.dubTasks) {
-        try {
-          await dub.exec(cs, {ep: sd.ep});
-        }
-        catch (err) {
-          this.logger.error({err}, 'Dial:_selectSingleDial - error executing dubTask');
-        }
-      }
-    }
-
    if (this.parentDtmfCollector) this._installDtmfDetection(cs, cs.dlg);
    if (this.childDtmfCollector) this._installDtmfDetection(cs, this.dlg);
    if (cs.sipRequestWithinDialogHook) this._initSipIndialogRequestListener(cs, this.dlg);
@@ -830,18 +792,6 @@ class TaskDial extends Task {
      }
    }

-    /* boost audio signal if requested */
-    if (this.boostAudioSignal) {
-      try {
-        const db = parseDecibels(this.boostAudioSignal);
-        this.logger.info(`Dial: boosting audio signal by ${db} dB`);
-        const args = [this.ep.uuid, 'setGain', db];
-        await this.ep.api('uuid_dub', args);
-      } catch (err) {
-        this.logger.info({err}, 'Dial:_selectSingleDial - Error boosting audio signal');
-      }
-    }
-
    /* if we can release the media back to the SBC, do so now */
    if (this.canReleaseMedia) setTimeout(this._releaseMedia.bind(this, cs, sd), 200);
  }
--- a/lib/tasks/dub.js
+++ b/lib/tasks/dub.js
@@ -1,144 +0,0 @@
-const {TaskName} = require('../utils/constants');
-const TtsTask = require('./tts-task');
-const assert = require('assert');
-const parseDecibels = require('../utils/parse-decibels');
-
-/**
- * Dub task: add or remove additional audio tracks into the call
- */
-class TaskDub extends TtsTask {
-  constructor(logger, opts, parentTask) {
-    super(logger, opts, parentTask);
-
-    this.logger.debug({opts: this.data}, 'TaskDub constructor');
-    ['action', 'track', 'play', 'say', 'loop'].forEach((prop) => {
-      this[prop] = this.data[prop];
-    });
-    this.gain = parseDecibels(this.data.gain);
-
-    assert.ok(this.action, 'TaskDub: action is required');
-    assert.ok(this.track, 'TaskDub: track is required');
-  }
-
-  get name() { return TaskName.Dub; }
-
-  async exec(cs, {ep}) {
-    super.exec(cs);
-
-    try {
-      switch (this.action) {
-        case 'addTrack':
-          await this._addTrack(cs, ep);
-          break;
-        case 'removeTrack':
-          await this._removeTrack(cs, ep);
-          break;
-        case 'silenceTrack':
-          await this._silenceTrack(cs, ep);
-          break;
-        case 'playOnTrack':
-          await this._playOnTrack(cs, ep);
-          break;
-        case 'sayOnTrack':
-          await this._sayOnTrack(cs, ep);
-          break;
-        default:
-          throw new Error(`TaskDub: unsupported action ${this.action}`);
-      }
-    } catch (err) {
-      this.logger.error(err, 'Error executing dub task');
-    }
-  }
-
-  async _addTrack(cs, ep) {
-    this.logger.info(`adding track: ${this.track}`);
-    await ep.dub({
-      action: 'addTrack',
-      track: this.track
-    });
-
-    if (this.play) await this._playOnTrack(cs, ep);
-    else if (this.say) await this._sayOnTrack(cs, ep);
-  }
-
-  async _removeTrack(_cs, ep) {
-    this.logger.info(`removing track: ${this.track}`);
-    await ep.dub({
-      action: 'removeTrack',
-      track: this.track
-    });
-  }
-
-  async _silenceTrack(_cs, ep) {
-    this.logger.info(`silencing track: ${this.track}`);
-    await ep.dub({
-      action: 'silenceTrack',
-      track: this.track
-    });
-  }
-
-  async _playOnTrack(_cs, ep) {
-    this.logger.info(`playing on track: ${this.track}`);
-    await ep.dub({
-      action: 'playOnTrack',
-      track: this.track,
-      play: this.play,
-      loop: this.loop ? 'loop' : 'once',
-      gain: this.gain
-    });
-  }
-
-  async _sayOnTrack(cs, ep) {
-    const text = this.say.text || this.say;
-    this.synthesizer = this.say.synthesizer || {};
-
-    if (Object.keys(this.synthesizer).length) {
-      this.logger.info({synthesizer: this.synthesizer},
-        `saying on track ${this.track}: ${text} with synthesizer options`);
-    }
-    else {
-      this.logger.info(`saying on track ${this.track}: ${text}`);
-    }
-    this.synthesizer = this.synthesizer || {};
-
-    this.text = [text];
-
-    const vendor = this.synthesizer.vendor && this.synthesizer.vendor !== 'default' ?
-      this.synthesizer.vendor :
-      cs.speechSynthesisVendor;
-    const language = this.synthesizer.language && this.synthesizer.language !== 'default' ?
-      this.synthesizer.language :
-      cs.speechSynthesisLanguage ;
-    const voice =  this.synthesizer.voice && this.synthesizer.voice !== 'default' ?
-      this.synthesizer.voice :
-      cs.speechSynthesisVoice;
-    const label = this.synthesizer.label && this.synthesizer.label !== 'default' ?
-      this.synthesizer.label :
-      cs.speechSynthesisLabel;
-
-    const disableTtsStreaming = false;
-    const filepath = await this._synthesizeWithSpecificVendor(cs, ep, {
-      vendor, language, voice, label, disableTtsStreaming
-    });
-    assert.ok(filepath.length === 1, 'TaskDub: no filepath returned from synthesizer');
-
-    const path = filepath[0];
-    if (!path.startsWith('say:{')) {
-      /* we have a local file of mp3 or r8 of synthesized speech audio to play */
-      this.logger.info(`playing synthesized speech from file on track ${this.track}: ${path}`);
-      this.play = path;
-      await this._playOnTrack(cs, ep);
-    }
-    else {
-      this.logger.info(`doing actual text to speech file on track ${this.track}: ${path}`);
-      await ep.dub({
-        action: 'sayOnTrack',
-        track: this.track,
-        say: path,
-        gain: this.gain
-      });
-    }
-  }
-}
-
-module.exports = TaskDub;
--- a/lib/tasks/enqueue.js
+++ b/lib/tasks/enqueue.js
@@ -338,7 +338,6 @@ class TaskEnqueue extends Task {
      this.logger.error({err}, `TaskEnqueue:_playHook error retrieving list info for queue ${this.queueName}`);
    }
    const json = await cs.application.requestor.request('verb:hook', hook, params, httpHeaders);
-    this.logger.debug({json}, 'TaskEnqueue:_playHook: received response from waitHook');
    const tasks = normalizeJambones(this.logger, json).map((tdata) => makeTask(this.logger, tdata));

    const allowedTasks = tasks.filter((t) => allowed.includes(t.name));
--- a/lib/tasks/gather.js
+++ b/lib/tasks/gather.js
@@ -10,10 +10,7 @@ const {
  IbmTranscriptionEvents,
  NvidiaTranscriptionEvents,
  JambonzTranscriptionEvents,
-  AssemblyAiTranscriptionEvents,
-  VadDetection,
-  VerbioTranscriptionEvents,
-  SpeechmaticsTranscriptionEvents
+  AssemblyAiTranscriptionEvents
 } = require('../utils/constants.json');
 const {
  JAMBONES_GATHER_EARLY_HINTS_MATCH,
@@ -23,7 +20,6 @@ const {
 const makeTask = require('./make_task');
 const assert = require('assert');
 const SttTask = require('./stt-task');
-const { SpeechCredentialError } = require('../utils/error');

 class TaskGather extends SttTask {
  constructor(logger, opts, parentTask) {
@@ -31,13 +27,9 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
    [
      'finishOnKey', 'input', 'numDigits', 'minDigits', 'maxDigits',
      'interDigitTimeout', 'partialResultHook', 'bargein', 'dtmfBargein',
-      'speechTimeout', 'timeout', 'say', 'play', 'actionHookDelayAction', 'fillerNoise', 'vad'
+      'speechTimeout', 'timeout', 'say', 'play'
    ].forEach((k) => this[k] = this.data[k]);

-    // gather default input is digits
-    if (!this.input) {
-      this.input = ['digits'];
-    }
    /* when collecting dtmf, bargein on dtmf is true unless explicitly set to false */
    if (this.dtmfBargein !== false  && this.input.includes('digits')) this.dtmfBargein = true;

@@ -45,8 +37,7 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
    this.timeout = this.timeout === 0 ? 0 : (this.timeout || 15) * 1000;
    this.interim = !!this.partialResultHook || this.bargein || (this.timeout > 0);
    this.listenDuringPrompt = this.data.listenDuringPrompt === false ? false : true;
-    this.minBargeinWordCount = this.data.minBargeinWordCount !== undefined ? this.data.minBargeinWordCount : 1;
-    this._vadEnabled = this.minBargeinWordCount === 0;
+    this.minBargeinWordCount = this.data.minBargeinWordCount || 1;
    if (this.data.recognizer) {
      /* continuous ASR (i.e. compile transcripts until a special timeout or dtmf key) */
      this.asrTimeout = typeof this.data.recognizer.asrTimeout === 'number' ?
@@ -96,18 +87,6 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
      (this.playTask && this.playTask.earlyMedia);
  }

-  get hasFillerNoise() {
-    return Object.keys(this.fillerNoise).length > 0 && this.fillerNoise.enabled !== false;
-  }
-
-  get fillerNoiseUrl() {
-    return this.fillerNoise.url;
-  }
-
-  get fillerNoiseStartDelaySecs() {
-    return this.fillerNoise.startDelaySecs;
-  }
-
  get summary() {
    let s = `${this.name}{`;
    if (this.input.length === 2) s += 'inputs=[speech,digits],';
@@ -119,39 +98,15 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
    }
    if (this.sayTask) s += ',with nested say task';
    if (this.playTask) s += ',with nested play task';
-    if (this.actionHookDelayAction) s += ',with actionHookDelayAction';
    s += '}';
    return s;
  }

-  async exec(cs, obj) {
-    try {
-      await this.handling(cs, obj);
-    } catch (error) {
-      if (error instanceof SpeechCredentialError) {
-        this.logger.info('Gather failed due to SpeechCredentialError, finished!');
-        this.notifyTaskDone();
-        return;
-      }
-      throw error;
-    }
-  }
-
-  async handling(cs, {ep}) {
+  async exec(cs, {ep}) {
    this.logger.debug({options: this.data}, 'Gather:exec');
    await super.exec(cs, {ep});
    const {updateSpeechCredentialLastUsed} = require('../utils/db-utils')(this.logger, cs.srf);

-    this.fillerNoise = {
-      ...(cs.fillerNoise || {}),
-      ...(this.fillerNoise || {})
-    };
-
-    this.vad = {
-      ...(cs.vad || {}),
-      ...(this.vad || {})
-    };
-
    if (cs.hasGlobalSttHints && !this.maskGlobalSttHints) {
      const {hints, hintsBoost} = cs.globalSttHints;
      const setOfHints = new Set((this.data.recognizer.hints || [])
@@ -179,26 +134,6 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
      this.interim = true;
      this.logger.debug('Gather:exec - early hints match enabled');
    }
-
-    // if we have actionHook delay, and the session does as well, stash the session config
-    if (this.actionHookDelayAction) {
-      if (cs.actionHookDelayProcessor) {
-        this.logger.debug('Gather:exec - stashing session-level ahd proprerties');
-        cs.stashActionHookDelayProperties();
-      }
-      cs.actionHookDelayProperties = this.actionHookDelayAction;
-    }
-
-    this._startVad();
-
-    const startDtmfListener = () => {
-      assert(!this._dtmfListenerStarted);
-      if (this.input.includes('digits') || this.dtmfBargein || this.asrDtmfTerminationDigit) {
-        ep.on('dtmf', this._onDtmf.bind(this, cs, ep));
-        this._dtmfListenerStarted = true;
-      }
-    };
-
    const startListening = async(cs, ep) => {
      this._startTimer();
      if (this.isContinuousAsr && 0 === this.timeout) this._startAsrTimer();
@@ -212,7 +147,12 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
          this._startTranscribing(ep);
          return updateSpeechCredentialLastUsed(this.sttCredentials.speech_credential_sid);
        } catch (e) {
-          await this._startFallback(cs, ep, {error: e});
+          if (this.fallbackVendor && this.isHandledByPrimaryProvider) {
+            await this._fallback();
+            startListening(cs, ep);
+          } else {
+            this.logger.error({error: e}, 'error in initSpeech');
+          }
        }
      }
    };
@@ -220,12 +160,13 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
    try {
      if (this.sayTask) {
        const {span, ctx} = this.startChildSpan(`nested:${this.sayTask.summary}`);
-        const process = () => {
+        this.sayTask.span = span;
+        this.sayTask.ctx = ctx;
+        this.sayTask.exec(cs, {ep});  // kicked off, _not_ waiting for it to complete
+        this.sayTask.on('playDone', (err) => {
+          span.end();
+          if (err) this.logger.error({err}, 'Gather:exec Error playing tts');
          this.logger.debug('Gather: nested say task completed');
-          if (!this.listenDuringPrompt) {
-            startDtmfListener();
-          }
-          this._stopVad();
          if (!this.killed) {
            startListening(cs, ep);
            if (this.input.includes('speech') && this.vendor === 'nuance' && this.listenDuringPrompt) {
@@ -235,27 +176,17 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
              });
            }
          }
-        };
-        this.sayTask.span = span;
-        this.sayTask.ctx = ctx;
-        this.sayTask.exec(cs, {ep})  // kicked off, _not_ waiting for it to complete
-          .catch((err) => {
-            process();
-          });
-        this.sayTask.on('playDone', (err) => {
-          span.end();
-          if (err) this.logger.error({err}, 'Gather:exec Error playing tts');
-          process();
        });
      }
      else if (this.playTask) {
        const {span, ctx} = this.startChildSpan(`nested:${this.playTask.summary}`);
-        const process = () => {
+        this.playTask.span = span;
+        this.playTask.ctx = ctx;
+        this.playTask.exec(cs, {ep});  // kicked off, _not_ waiting for it to complete
+        this.playTask.on('playDone', (err) => {
+          span.end();
+          if (err) this.logger.error({err}, 'Gather:exec Error playing url');
          this.logger.debug('Gather: nested play task completed');
-          if (!this.listenDuringPrompt) {
-            startDtmfListener();
-          }
-          this._stopVad();
          if (!this.killed) {
            startListening(cs, ep);
            if (this.input.includes('speech') && this.vendor === 'nuance' && this.listenDuringPrompt) {
@@ -265,17 +196,6 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
              });
            }
          }
-        };
-        this.playTask.span = span;
-        this.playTask.ctx = ctx;
-        this.playTask.exec(cs, {ep})  // kicked off, _not_ waiting for it to complete
-          .catch((err) => {
-            process();
-          });
-        this.playTask.on('playDone', (err) => {
-          span.end();
-          if (err) this.logger.error({err}, 'Gather:exec Error playing url');
-          process();
        });
      }
      else {
@@ -288,23 +208,16 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {

      if (this.input.includes('speech') && this.listenDuringPrompt) {
        await this._setSpeechHandlers(cs, ep);
-        if (!this.resolved && !this.killed) {
-          this._startTranscribing(ep);
-          updateSpeechCredentialLastUsed(this.sttCredentials.speech_credential_sid)
-            .catch(() => {/*already logged error */});
-        }
-        else {
-          this.logger.info('Gather:exec - task was killed or resolved quickly, not starting transcription');
-        }
+        this._startTranscribing(ep);
+        updateSpeechCredentialLastUsed(this.sttCredentials.speech_credential_sid)
+          .catch(() => {/*already logged error */});
      }

-      // https://github.com/jambonz/jambonz-feature-server/issues/913
-      if (this.listenDuringPrompt || (!this.sayTask && !this.playTask)) {
-        startDtmfListener();
+      if (this.input.includes('digits') || this.dtmfBargein || this.asrDtmfTerminationDigit) {
+        ep.on('dtmf', this._onDtmf.bind(this, cs, ep));
      }

      await this.awaitTaskDone();
-      this._killAudio(cs);
    } catch (err) {
      this.logger.error(err, 'TaskGather:exec error');
    }
@@ -314,13 +227,11 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
  kill(cs) {
    super.kill(cs);
    this._killAudio(cs);
-    this._clearFillerNoiseTimer();
    this.ep.removeAllListeners('dtmf');
    clearTimeout(this.interDigitTimer);
    this._clearAsrTimer();
    this.playTask?.span.end();
    this.sayTask?.span.end();
-    this._stopVad();
    this._resolve('killed');
  }

@@ -340,9 +251,6 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
    clearTimeout(this.interDigitTimer);
    let resolved = false;
    if (this.dtmfBargein) {
-      if (!this.playComplete) {
-        this.notifyStatus({event: 'dtmf-bargein-detected', ...evt});
-      }
      this._killAudio(cs);
      this.emit('dtmf', evt);
    }
@@ -401,19 +309,23 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
          ep, GoogleTranscriptionEvents.Transcription, this._onTranscription.bind(this, cs, ep));
        this.addCustomEventListener(
          ep, GoogleTranscriptionEvents.EndOfUtterance, this._onEndOfUtterance.bind(this, cs, ep));
+        this.addCustomEventListener(
+          ep, GoogleTranscriptionEvents.VadDetected, this._onVadDetected.bind(this, cs, ep));
        break;

      case 'aws':
      case 'polly':
        this.bugname = `${this.bugname_prefix}aws_transcribe`;
        this.addCustomEventListener(ep, AwsTranscriptionEvents.Transcription, this._onTranscription.bind(this, cs, ep));
+        this.addCustomEventListener(ep, AwsTranscriptionEvents.VadDetected, this._onVadDetected.bind(this, cs, ep));
        break;
      case 'microsoft':
        this.bugname = `${this.bugname_prefix}azure_transcribe`;
        this.addCustomEventListener(
          ep, AzureTranscriptionEvents.Transcription, this._onTranscription.bind(this, cs, ep));
-        //this.addCustomEventListener(ep, AzureTranscriptionEvents.NoSpeechDetected,
-        //this._onNoSpeechDetected.bind(this, cs, ep));
+        this.addCustomEventListener(ep, AzureTranscriptionEvents.NoSpeechDetected,
+          this._onNoSpeechDetected.bind(this, cs, ep));
+        this.addCustomEventListener(ep, AzureTranscriptionEvents.VadDetected, this._onVadDetected.bind(this, cs, ep));
        break;
      case 'nuance':
        this.bugname = `${this.bugname_prefix}nuance_transcribe`;
@@ -423,6 +335,8 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
          this._onStartOfSpeech.bind(this, cs, ep));
        this.addCustomEventListener(ep, NuanceTranscriptionEvents.TranscriptionComplete,
          this._onTranscriptionComplete.bind(this, cs, ep));
+        this.addCustomEventListener(ep, NuanceTranscriptionEvents.VadDetected,
+          this._onVadDetected.bind(this, cs, ep));

        /* stall timers until prompt finishes playing */
        if ((this.sayTask || this.playTask) && this.listenDuringPrompt) {
@@ -437,6 +351,9 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
        this.addCustomEventListener(ep, DeepgramTranscriptionEvents.Connect, this._onVendorConnect.bind(this, cs, ep));
        this.addCustomEventListener(ep, DeepgramTranscriptionEvents.ConnectFailure,
          this._onVendorConnectFailure.bind(this, cs, ep));
+
+        /* if app sets deepgramOptions.utteranceEndMs they essentially want continuous asr */
+        if (opts.DEEPGRAM_SPEECH_UTTERANCE_END_MS) this.isContinuousAsr = true;
        break;

      case 'soniox':
@@ -445,12 +362,6 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
          ep, SonioxTranscriptionEvents.Transcription, this._onTranscription.bind(this, cs, ep));
        break;

-      case 'verbio':
-        this.bugname = `${this.bugname_prefix}verbio_transcribe`;
-        this.addCustomEventListener(
-          ep, VerbioTranscriptionEvents.Transcription, this._onTranscription.bind(this, cs, ep));
-        break;
-
      case 'cobalt':
        this.bugname = `${this.bugname_prefix}cobalt_transcribe`;
        this.addCustomEventListener(
@@ -498,6 +409,8 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
          this._onStartOfSpeech.bind(this, cs, ep));
        this.addCustomEventListener(ep, NvidiaTranscriptionEvents.TranscriptionComplete,
          this._onTranscriptionComplete.bind(this, cs, ep));
+        this.addCustomEventListener(ep, NvidiaTranscriptionEvents.VadDetected,
+          this._onVadDetected.bind(this, cs, ep));

        /* I think nvidia has this (??) - stall timers until prompt finishes playing */
        if ((this.sayTask || this.playTask) && this.listenDuringPrompt) {
@@ -515,24 +428,6 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
        this.addCustomEventListener(ep, AssemblyAiTranscriptionEvents.ConnectFailure,
          this._onVendorConnectFailure.bind(this, cs, ep));
        break;
-
-      case 'speechmatics':
-        this.bugname = `${this.bugname_prefix}speechmatics_transcribe`;
-        this.addCustomEventListener(
-          ep, SpeechmaticsTranscriptionEvents.Transcription, this._onTranscription.bind(this, cs, ep));
-        this.addCustomEventListener(ep, SpeechmaticsTranscriptionEvents.Info,
-          this._onSpeechmaticsInfo.bind(this, cs, ep));
-        this.addCustomEventListener(ep, SpeechmaticsTranscriptionEvents.RecognitionStarted,
-          this._onSpeechmaticsRecognitionStarted.bind(this, cs, ep));
-        this.addCustomEventListener(ep, SpeechmaticsTranscriptionEvents.Connect,
-          this._onVendorConnect.bind(this, cs, ep));
-        this.addCustomEventListener(ep, SpeechmaticsTranscriptionEvents.ConnectFailure,
-          this._onVendorConnectFailure.bind(this, cs, ep));
-        this.addCustomEventListener(ep, SpeechmaticsTranscriptionEvents.Error,
-          this._onSpeechmaticsErrror.bind(this, cs, ep));
-
-        break;
-
      default:
        if (this.vendor.startsWith('custom:')) {
          this.bugname = `${this.bugname_prefix}${this.vendor}_transcribe`;
@@ -582,8 +477,7 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
        account_sid: this.cs.accountSid,
        alert_type: AlertType.STT_FAILURE,
        vendor: this.vendor,
-        detail: err.message,
-        target_sid: this.cs.callSid
+        detail: err.message
      });
    }).catch((err) => this.logger.info({err}, 'Error generating alert for tts failure'));
  }
@@ -593,8 +487,9 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
    this._clearTimer();
    this._timeoutTimer = setTimeout(() => {
      if (this.isContinuousAsr) this._startAsrTimer();
-      if (this.interDigitTimer) return; // let the inter-digit timer complete
-      else {
+      else if (this.interDigitTimeout <= 0 ||
+        this.digitBuffer.length < this.minDigits ||
+        this.needsStt && this.digitBuffer.length === 0) {
        this._resolve(this.digitBuffer.length >= this.minDigits ? 'dtmf-num-digits' : 'timeout');
      }
    }, this.timeout);
@@ -604,9 +499,7 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
    if (this._timeoutTimer) {
      clearTimeout(this._timeoutTimer);
      this._timeoutTimer = null;
-      return true;
    }
-    return false;
  }

  _startAsrTimer() {
@@ -615,25 +508,17 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
    this._clearAsrTimer();
    this._asrTimer = setTimeout(() => {
      this.logger.debug('_startAsrTimer - asr timer went off');
-      const evt = this.consolidateTranscripts(this._bufferedTranscripts, 1, this.language, this.vendor);
+      const evt = this.consolidateTranscripts(this._bufferedTranscripts, 1, this.language);
      this._resolve(this._bufferedTranscripts.length > 0 ? 'speech' : 'timeout', evt);
    }, this.asrTimeout);
    this.logger.debug(`_startAsrTimer: set for ${this.asrTimeout}ms`);
  }

  _clearAsrTimer() {
-    if (this._asrTimer) {
-      this.logger.debug('_clearAsrTimer: asrTimer cleared');
-      clearTimeout(this._asrTimer);
-    }
+    if (this._asrTimer) clearTimeout(this._asrTimer);
    this._asrTimer = null;
  }

-  _hangupCall() {
-    this.logger.debug('_hangupCall');
-    this.cs.hangup();
-  }
-
  _startFastRecognitionTimer(evt) {
    assert(this.fastRecognitionTimeout > 0);
    this._clearFastRecognitionTimer();
@@ -654,7 +539,7 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
    this._clearFinalAsrTimer();
    this._finalAsrTimer = setTimeout(() => {
      this.logger.debug('_startFinalAsrTimer - final asr timer went off');
-      const evt = this.consolidateTranscripts(this._bufferedTranscripts, 1, this.language, this.vendor);
+      const evt = this.consolidateTranscripts(this._bufferedTranscripts, 1, this.language);
      this._resolve(this._bufferedTranscripts.length > 0 ? 'speech' : 'timeout', evt);
    }, 1000);
    this.logger.debug('_startFinalAsrTimer: set for 1 second');
@@ -665,65 +550,11 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
    this._finalAsrTimer = null;
  }

-
-  _startVad() {
-    if (!this._vadStarted && this._vadEnabled) {
-      this.logger.debug('_startVad');
-      this.addCustomEventListener(this.ep, VadDetection.Detection, this._onVadDetected.bind(this, this.cs, this.ep));
-      this.ep?.startVadDetection(this.vad);
-      this._vadStarted = true;
-    }
-  }
-
-  _stopVad() {
-    if (this._vadStarted) {
-      this.logger.debug('_stopVad');
-      this.ep?.stopVadDetection(this.vad);
-      this.ep?.removeCustomEventListener(VadDetection.Detection, this._onVadDetected);
-      this._vadStarted = false;
-    }
-  }
-
-  _startFillerNoise() {
-    this.logger.debug('Gather:_startFillerNoise - playing filler noise');
-    this.ep?.play(this.fillerNoise.url);
-    this._fillerNoiseOn = true;
-    this.ep.once('playback-start', (evt) => {
-      if (evt.file === this.fillerNoise.url && !this._fillerNoiseOn) {
-        this.logger.info({evt}, 'Gather:_startFillerNoise - race condition - kill filler noise here');
-        this.ep.api('uuid_break', this.ep.uuid)
-          .catch((err) => this.logger.info(err, 'Error killing filler noise'));
-        return;
-      } else this.logger.debug({evt}, 'Gather:_startFillerNoise - playback started');
-    });
-  }
-
-  _startFillerNoiseTimer() {
-    this._clearFillerNoiseTimer();
-    this._fillerNoiseTimer = setTimeout(() => {
-      this.logger.debug('Gather:_startFillerNoiseTimer - playing filler noise');
-      this._startFillerNoise();
-    }, this.fillerNoise.startDelaySecs * 1000);
-  }
-
-  _clearFillerNoiseTimer() {
-    if (this._fillerNoiseTimer) clearTimeout(this._fillerNoiseTimer);
-    this._fillerNoiseTimer = null;
-  }
-
-  _killFillerNoise() {
-    if (this._fillerNoiseTimer) {
-      this.logger.debug('Gather:_killFillerNoise');
-      this.ep?.api('uuid_break', this.ep.uuid);
-    }
-  }
-
  _killAudio(cs) {
-    if (this.hasFillerNoise || (!this.sayTask && !this.playTask && this.bargein)) {
-      if (this.ep?.connected && (!this.playComplete || this.hasFillerNoise)) {
+    if (!this.sayTask && !this.playTask && this.bargein) {
+      if (this.ep?.connected && !this.playComplete) {
        this.logger.debug('Gather:_killAudio: killing playback of any audio');
        this.playComplete = true;
-        this._fillerNoiseOn = false;  // in a race, if we just started audio it may sneak through here
        this.ep.api('uuid_break', this.ep.uuid)
          .catch((err) => this.logger.info(err, 'Error killing audio'));
      }
@@ -739,18 +570,17 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
      this.playTask.kill(cs);
      this.playTask = null;
    }
-    this.playComplete = true;
  }

  _onTranscription(cs, ep, evt, fsEvent) {
    // make sure this is not a transcript from answering machine detection
    const bugname = fsEvent.getHeader('media-bugname');
    const finished = fsEvent.getHeader('transcription-session-finished');
-    this.logger.debug({evt, bugname, finished, vendor: this.vendor}, 'Gather:_onTranscription raw transcript');
+    this.logger.debug({evt, bugname, finished}, `Gather:_onTranscription for vendor ${this.vendor}`);
    if (bugname && this.bugname !== bugname) return;
-    if (finished === 'true') return;

    if (this.vendor === 'ibm' && evt?.state === 'listening') return;
+
    if (this.vendor === 'deepgram' && evt.type === 'UtteranceEnd') {
      /* we will only get this when we have set utterance_end_ms */
      if (this._bufferedTranscripts.length === 0) {
@@ -758,35 +588,19 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
      }
      else {
        this.logger.debug('Gather:_onTranscription - got UtteranceEnd event from deepgram, return buffered transcript');
-        evt = this.consolidateTranscripts(this._bufferedTranscripts, 1, this.language, this.vendor);
+        evt = this.consolidateTranscripts(this._bufferedTranscripts, 1, this.language);
        this._bufferedTranscripts = [];
        this._resolve('speech', evt);
      }
      return;
    }
-    if (this.vendor === 'deepgram' && evt.type === 'Metadata') {
-      this.logger.debug('Gather:_onTranscription - discarding Metadata event from deepgram');
-      return;
-    }

    evt = this.normalizeTranscription(evt, this.vendor, 1, this.language,
      this.shortUtterance, this.data.recognizer.punctuation);
-    this.logger.debug({evt, bugname, finished, vendor: this.vendor}, 'Gather:_onTranscription normalized transcript');
-
    if (evt.alternatives.length === 0) {
      this.logger.info({evt}, 'TaskGather:_onTranscription - got empty transcript, continue listening');
      return;
    }
-    const confidence = evt.alternatives[0].confidence;
-    const minConfidence = this.data.recognizer?.minConfidence;
-    this.logger.debug({evt},
-      `TaskGather:_onTranscription - confidence (${confidence}), minConfidence (${minConfidence})`);
-    if (confidence && minConfidence && confidence < minConfidence) {
-      this.logger.info({evt},
-        'TaskGather:_onTranscription - Transcript confidence ' +
-        `(${confidence}) < minConfidence (${minConfidence})`);
-      return this._resolve('stt-low-confidence', evt);
-    }

    /* fast path: our first partial transcript exactly matches an early hint */
    if (this.earlyHintsMatch && evt.is_final === false && this.partialTranscriptsCount++ === 0) {
@@ -808,9 +622,7 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
    if (evt.is_final) {
      if (evt.alternatives[0].transcript === '' && !this.callSession.callGone && !this.killed) {
        emptyTranscript = true;
-        if (finished === 'true' &&
-          ['microsoft', 'deepgram'].includes(this.vendor) &&
-          this._bufferedTranscripts.length === 0) {
+        if (finished === 'true' && ['microsoft', 'deepgram'].includes(this.vendor)) {
          this.logger.debug({evt}, 'TaskGather:_onTranscription - got empty transcript from old gather, disregarding');
          return;
        }
@@ -844,7 +656,7 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
        this._clearTimer();
        if (this._finalAsrTimer) {
          this._clearFinalAsrTimer();
-          const evt = this.consolidateTranscripts(this._bufferedTranscripts, 1, this.language, this.vendor);
+          const evt = this.consolidateTranscripts(this._bufferedTranscripts, 1, this.language);
          return this._resolve(this._bufferedTranscripts.length > 0 ? 'speech' : 'timeout', evt);
        }
        this._startAsrTimer();
@@ -853,60 +665,50 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
        if (!['soniox', 'aws', 'microsoft', 'deepgram'].includes(this.vendor)) this._startTranscribing(ep);
      }
      else {
-        /* this was removed to fix https://github.com/jambonz/jambonz-feature-server/issues/783 */
-        /*
        if (this.bargein && (words + bufferedWords) < this.minBargeinWordCount) {
          this.logger.debug({evt, words, bufferedWords},
            'TaskGather:_onTranscription - final transcript but < min barge words');
-          if (!emptyTranscript) this._bufferedTranscripts.push(evt);
-          if (!['soniox', 'aws', 'microsoft', 'deepgram'].includes(this.vendor)) this._startTranscribing(ep);
+          this._bufferedTranscripts.push(evt);
+          this._startTranscribing(ep);
          return;
        }
        else {
-        */
-        if (this.vendor === 'soniox') {
-          /* compile transcripts into one */
-          this._sonioxTranscripts.push(evt.vendor.finalWords);
-          evt = this.compileSonioxTranscripts(this._sonioxTranscripts, 1, this.language);
-          this._sonioxTranscripts = [];
-        }
-        else if (this.vendor === 'deepgram') {
-          /* compile transcripts into one */
-          if (!emptyTranscript) this._bufferedTranscripts.push(evt);
+          if (this.vendor === 'soniox') {
+            /* compile transcripts into one */
+            this._sonioxTranscripts.push(evt.vendor.finalWords);
+            evt = this.compileSonioxTranscripts(this._sonioxTranscripts, 1, this.language);
+            this._sonioxTranscripts = [];
+          }
+          else if (this.vendor === 'deepgram') {
+            /* compile transcripts into one */
+            if (!emptyTranscript) this._bufferedTranscripts.push(evt);
+            if (this.data.recognizer?.deepgramOptions?.utteranceEndMs) {
+              this.logger.debug('TaskGather:_onTranscription - got speech_final waiting for UtteranceEnd event');
+              return;
+            }

-          /* deepgram can send an empty and final transcript; only if we have any buffered should we resolve */
-          if (this._bufferedTranscripts.length === 0) return;
-          evt = this.consolidateTranscripts(this._bufferedTranscripts, 1, this.language, this.vendor);
-          this._bufferedTranscripts = [];
-        }
+            /* deepgram can send an empty and final transcript; only if we have any buffered should we resolve */
+            if (this._bufferedTranscripts.length === 0) return;
+            this.logger.debug({evt}, 'TaskGather:_onTranscription - compiling deepgram transcripts');
+            evt = this.consolidateTranscripts(this._bufferedTranscripts, 1, this.language);
+            this._bufferedTranscripts = [];
+            this.logger.debug({evt}, 'TaskGather:_onTranscription - compiled deepgram transcripts');
+          }

-        /* here is where we return a final transcript */
-        this._resolve('speech', evt);
-        /*}*/
+          /* here is where we return a final transcript */
+          this._resolve('speech', evt);
+        }
      }
    }
    else {
-      /* deepgram can send a non-final transcript but with words that are final, so we need to buffer */
-      let emptyTranscript = false;
-      if (this.vendor === 'deepgram') {
-        const originalEvent = evt.vendor.evt;
-        if (originalEvent.is_final && evt.alternatives[0].transcript !== '') {
-          this.logger.debug({evt}, 'Gather:_onTranscription - buffering a completed (partial) deepgram transcript');
-          this._bufferedTranscripts.push(evt);
-        }
-        if (evt.alternatives[0].transcript === '') emptyTranscript = true;
-      }
-
-      if (!emptyTranscript) {
-        if (this._clearTimer()) this._startTimer();
-        if (this.bargein && (words + bufferedWords) >= this.minBargeinWordCount) {
-          if (!this.playComplete) {
-            this.logger.debug({transcript: evt.alternatives[0].transcript}, 'killing audio due to speech');
-            this.emit('vad');
-            this.notifyStatus({event: 'speech-bargein-detected', ...evt});
-          }
-          this._killAudio(cs);
+      this._clearTimer();
+      this._startTimer();
+      if (this.bargein && (words + bufferedWords) >= this.minBargeinWordCount) {
+        if (!this.playComplete) {
+          this.logger.debug({transcript: evt.alternatives[0].transcript}, 'killing audio due to speech');
+          this.emit('vad');
        }
+        this._killAudio(cs);
      }
      if (this.fastRecognitionTimeout) {
        this._startFastRecognitionTimer(evt);
@@ -918,18 +720,20 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
          this.cs.callInfo, httpHeaders));
      }
      if (this.vendor === 'soniox') {
+        this._clearTimer();
        if (evt.vendor.finalWords.length) {
          this.logger.debug({evt}, 'TaskGather:_onTranscription - buffering soniox transcript');
          this._sonioxTranscripts.push(evt.vendor.finalWords);
        }
      }
-      // If transcription received, reset timeout timer.
-      if (this._timeoutTimer && !emptyTranscript) {
-        this._startTimer();
+      /* deepgram can send a non-final transcript but with words that are final, so we need to buffer */
+      if (this.vendor === 'deepgram') {
+        const originalEvent = evt.vendor.evt;
+        if (originalEvent.is_final && evt.alternatives[0].transcript !== '') {
+          this.logger.debug({evt}, 'Gather:_onTranscription - buffering a completed (partial) deepgram transcript');
+          this._bufferedTranscripts.push(evt);
+        }
      }
-      /* restart asr timer if we get a partial transcript (only if the asr timer is already running) */
-      /* note: https://github.com/jambonz/jambonz-feature-server/issues/866 */
-      if (this.isContinuousAsr && this._asrTimer) this._startAsrTimer();
    }
  }
  _onEndOfUtterance(cs, ep) {
@@ -961,9 +765,9 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
  _onTranscriptionComplete(cs, ep) {
    this.logger.debug('TaskGather:_onTranscriptionComplete');
  }
-
-  async _startFallback(cs, ep, evt) {
-    if (this.canFallback) {
+  async _onJambonzError(cs, ep, evt) {
+    this.logger.info({evt}, 'TaskGather:_onJambonzError');
+    if (this.isHandledByPrimaryProvider && this.fallbackVendor) {
      ep.stopTranscription({
        vendor: this.vendor,
        bugname: this.bugname
@@ -971,79 +775,40 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
        .catch((err) => this.logger.error({err}, `Error stopping transcription for primary vendor ${this.vendor}`));
      const {updateSpeechCredentialLastUsed} = require('../utils/db-utils')(this.logger, cs.srf);
      try {
-        this.logger.debug('gather:_startFallback');
-        this.notifyError({ msg: 'ASR error',
-          details:`STT Vendor ${this.vendor} error: ${evt.error || evt.reason}`, failover: 'in progress'});
-        await this._initFallback();
-        this._speechHandlersSet = false;
-        await this._setSpeechHandlers(cs, ep);
+        await this._fallback();
+        await this._initSpeech(cs, ep);
        this._startTranscribing(ep);
        updateSpeechCredentialLastUsed(this.sttCredentials.speech_credential_sid);
-        return true;
+        return;
      } catch (error) {
        this.logger.info({error}, `There is error while falling back to ${this.fallbackVendor}`);
-        this.notifyError({ msg: 'ASR error',
-          details:`STT Vendor ${this.vendor} error: ${evt.error || evt.reason}`, failover: 'not available'});
      }
-    } else {
-      this.logger.debug('gather:_startFallback no condition for falling back');
-      this.notifyError({ msg: 'ASR error',
-        details:`STT Vendor ${this.vendor} error: ${evt.error || evt.reason}`, failover: 'not available'});
    }
-    return false;
-  }
-
-  async _onJambonzError(cs, ep, evt) {
-    if (this.vendor === 'google' && evt.error_code === 0) {
-      this.logger.info({evt}, 'TaskTranscribe:_onJambonzError - ignoring google error code 0');
-      return;
-    }
-    this.logger.info({evt}, 'TaskGather:_onJambonzError');
    const {writeAlerts, AlertType} = cs.srf.locals;
+
    if (this.vendor === 'nuance') {
      const {code, error} = evt;
      if (code === 404 && error === 'No speech') return this._resolve('timeout');
      if (code === 413 && error === 'Too much speech') return this._resolve('timeout');
    }
    this.logger.info({evt}, 'TaskGather:_onJambonzError');
-    const errMessage = evt.error || evt.Message;
    writeAlerts({
      account_sid: cs.accountSid,
      alert_type: AlertType.STT_FAILURE,
-      message: `Custom speech vendor ${this.vendor} error: ${errMessage}`,
+      message: `Custom speech vendor ${this.vendor} error: ${evt.error}`,
      vendor: this.vendor,
-      target_sid: cs.callSid
    }).catch((err) => this.logger.info({err}, 'Error generating alert for jambonz custom connection failure'));
-    if (!(await this._startFallback(cs, ep, evt))) {
-      this.notifyTaskDone();
-    }
+    this.notifyError({msg: 'ASR error', details:`Custom speech vendor ${this.vendor} error: ${evt.error}`});
  }

-  async _onVendorConnectFailure(cs, _ep, evt) {
+  _onVendorConnectFailure(cs, _ep, evt) {
    super._onVendorConnectFailure(cs, _ep, evt);
-    if (!(await this._startFallback(cs, _ep, evt))) {
-      this.notifyTaskDone();
-    }
+    this.notifyTaskDone();
  }

-  async _onSpeechmaticsErrror(cs, _ep, evt) {
-    // eslint-disable-next-line no-unused-vars
-    const {message, ...e} = evt;
-    this._onVendorError(cs, _ep, {error: JSON.stringify(e)});
-  }
-
-  async _onVendorError(cs, _ep, evt) {
+  _onVendorError(cs, _ep, evt) {
    super._onVendorError(cs, _ep, evt);
-    if (!(await this._startFallback(cs, _ep, evt))) {
-      this._resolve('stt-error', evt);
-    }
-  }
-  async _onSpeechmaticsRecognitionStarted(_cs, _ep, evt) {
-    this.logger.debug({evt}, 'TaskGather:_onSpeechmaticsRecognitionStarted');
-  }
-
-  async _onSpeechmaticsInfo(_cs, _ep, evt) {
-    this.logger.debug({evt}, 'TaskGather:_onSpeechmaticsInfo');
+    this._resolve('stt-error', evt);
  }

  _onVadDetected(cs, ep) {
@@ -1052,10 +817,6 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
      this._killAudio(cs);
      this.emit('vad');
    }
-    if (this.vad?.strategy === 'one-shot') {
-      this.ep?.removeCustomEventListener(VadDetection.Detection, this._onVadDetected);
-      this._vadStarted = false;
-    }
  }

  _onNoSpeechDetected(cs, ep, evt, fsEvent) {
@@ -1074,39 +835,29 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {

  async _resolve(reason, evt) {
    this.logger.debug(`TaskGather:resolve with reason ${reason}`);
+    if (this.resolved) return;
+
+    this.resolved = true;
+    // Clear dtmf event
+    if (this.dtmfBargein) {
+      this.ep.removeAllListeners('dtmf');
+    }
+    clearTimeout(this.interDigitTimer);
+    this._clearTimer();
+    this._clearFastRecognitionTimer();
+
+    this.span.setAttributes({
+      channel: 1,
+      'stt.resolve': reason,
+      'stt.result': JSON.stringify(evt)
+    });
    if (this.needsStt && this.ep && this.ep.connected) {
      this.ep.stopTranscription({
        vendor: this.vendor,
        bugname: this.bugname
      })
-        .catch((err) => {
-          if (this.resolved) return;
-          this.logger.error({err}, 'Error stopping transcription');
-        });
+        .catch((err) => this.logger.error({err}, 'Error stopping transcription'));
    }
-    if (this.resolved) {
-      this.logger.debug('TaskGather:_resolve - already resolved');
-      return;
-    }
-
-    this.resolved = true;
-    // If bargin is false and ws application return ack to verb:hook
-    // the gather should not play any audio
-    this._killAudio(this.cs);
-    // Clear dtmf events, to avoid any case can leak the listener, just clean it
-    this.ep.removeAllListeners('dtmf');
-    clearTimeout(this.interDigitTimer);
-    this._clearTimer();
-    this._clearFastRecognitionTimer();
-    this._clearAsrTimer();
-    this._clearFinalAsrTimer();
-
-    this.span.setAttributes({
-      channel: 1,
-      'stt.label': this.label || 'None',
-      'stt.resolve': reason,
-      'stt.result': JSON.stringify(evt)
-    });

    if (this.callSession && this.callSession.callGone) {
      this.logger.debug('TaskGather:_resolve - call is gone, not invoking web callback');
@@ -1114,82 +865,36 @@ class TaskGather extends SttTask {
      return;
    }

-    // action hook delay
-    if (this.cs.actionHookDelayProcessor) {
-      this.logger.debug('TaskGather:_resolve - actionHookDelayProcessor exists - starting it');
-      this.cs.actionHookDelayProcessor.start();
-    }
-
-    // TODO: remove and implement as actionHookDelay
-    if (this.hasFillerNoise && (reason.startsWith('dtmf') || reason.startsWith('speech'))) {
-      if (this.fillerNoiseStartDelaySecs > 0) {
-        this._startFillerNoiseTimer();
-      }
-      else {
-        this.logger.debug(`TaskGather:_resolve - playing filler noise: ${this.fillerNoiseUrl}`);
-        this._startFillerNoise();
-      }
-    }
-
-    let returnedVerbs = false;
    try {
      if (reason.startsWith('dtmf')) {
        if (this.parentTask) this.parentTask.emit('dtmf', evt);
        else {
          this.emit('dtmf', evt);
-          returnedVerbs = await this.performAction({digits: this.digitBuffer, reason: 'dtmfDetected'});
+          await this.performAction({digits: this.digitBuffer, reason: 'dtmfDetected'});
        }
      }
      else if (reason.startsWith('speech')) {
        if (this.parentTask) this.parentTask.emit('transcription', evt);
        else {
          this.emit('transcription', evt);
-          this.logger.debug('TaskGather:_resolve - invoking performAction');
-          returnedVerbs = await this.performAction({speech: evt, reason: 'speechDetected'});
-          this.logger.debug({returnedVerbs}, 'TaskGather:_resolve - back from performAction');
+          await this.performAction({speech: evt, reason: 'speechDetected'});
        }
      }
      else if (reason.startsWith('timeout')) {
        if (this.parentTask) this.parentTask.emit('timeout', evt);
        else {
          this.emit('timeout', evt);
-          returnedVerbs = await this.performAction({reason: 'timeout'});
+          await this.performAction({reason: 'timeout'});
        }
      }
      else if (reason.startsWith('stt-error')) {
        if (this.parentTask) this.parentTask.emit('stt-error', evt);
        else {
          this.emit('stt-error', evt);
-          returnedVerbs = await this.performAction({reason: 'error', details: evt.error});
-        }
-      } else if (reason.startsWith('stt-low-confidence')) {
-        if (this.parentTask) this.parentTask.emit('stt-low-confidence', evt);
-        else {
-          this.emit('stt-low-confidence', evt);
-          returnedVerbs = await this.performAction({reason: 'stt-low-confidence'});
+          await this.performAction({reason: 'error', details: evt.error});
        }
      }
    } catch (err) {  /*already logged error*/ }
-
-    // Gather got response from hook, cancel actionHookDelay processing
-    this.logger.debug('TaskGather:_resolve - checking ahd');
-    if (this.cs.actionHookDelayProcessor) {
-      if (returnedVerbs) {
-        this.logger.debug('TaskGather:_resolve - got response from action hook, cancelling actionHookDelay');
-        await this.cs.actionHookDelayProcessor.stop();
-        if (this.actionHookDelayAction && !this.cs.popActionHookDelayProperties()) {
-          // no session level ahd was running when this task started, so clear it
-          this.cs.clearActionHookDelayProcessor();
-          this.logger.debug('TaskGather:_resolve - clear ahd');
-        }
-      }
-      else {
-        this.logger.debug('TaskGather:_resolve - no response from action hook, continue actionHookDelay');
-      }
-    }
-
-    this._clearFillerNoiseTimer();
-
    this.notifyTaskDone();
  }
 }
--- a/lib/tasks/listen.js
+++ b/lib/tasks/listen.js
@@ -8,10 +8,6 @@ const DTMF_SPAN_NAME = 'dtmf';
 class TaskListen extends Task {
  constructor(logger, opts, parentTask) {
    super(logger, opts);
-    /**
-     * @deprecated
-     * use bidirectionalAudio.enabled
-     */
    this.disableBidirectionalAudio = opts.disableBidirectionalAudio;
    this.preconditions = TaskPreconditions.Endpoint;

@@ -29,15 +25,6 @@ class TaskListen extends Task {
    this.results = {};
    this.playAudioQueue = [];
    this.isPlayingAudioFromQueue = false;
-    this.bidirectionalAudio = {
-      enabled: this.disableBidirectionalAudio === true ? false : true,
-      ...(this.data['bidirectionalAudio']),
-    };
-
-    // From drachtio-version 3.0.40, forkAudioStart will send empty bugname, metadata together with
-    // bidirectionalAudio params that cause old version of freeswitch missunderstand between bugname and
-    // bidirectionalAudio params
-    this._bugname = 'audio_fork';

    if (this.transcribe) this.transcribeTask = makeTask(logger, {'transcribe': opts.transcribe}, this);
  }
@@ -136,6 +123,8 @@ class TaskListen extends Task {
      ci,
      this.metadata);
    if (this.hook.auth) {
+      this.logger.debug({username: this.hook.auth.username, password: this.hook.auth.password},
+        'TaskListen:_startListening basic auth');
      await this.ep.set({
        'MOD_AUDIO_BASIC_AUTH_USERNAME': this.hook.auth.username,
        'MOD_AUDIO_BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD': this.hook.auth.password
@@ -146,8 +135,7 @@ class TaskListen extends Task {
      mixType: this.mixType,
      sampling: this.sampleRate,
      ...(this._bugname && {bugname: this._bugname}),
-      metadata,
-      bidirectionalAudio: this.bidirectionalAudio || {}
+      metadata
    });
    this.recordStartTime = moment();
    if (this.maxLength) {
@@ -167,7 +155,7 @@ class TaskListen extends Task {
    }

    /* support bi-directional audio */
-    if (this.bidirectionalAudio.enabled) {
+    if (!this.disableBidirectionalAudio) {
      ep.addCustomEventListener(ListenEvents.PlayAudio, this._onPlayAudio.bind(this, ep));
    }
    ep.addCustomEventListener(ListenEvents.KillAudio, this._onKillAudio.bind(this, ep));
--- a/lib/tasks/llm/index.js
+++ b/lib/tasks/llm/index.js
@@ -1,96 +0,0 @@
-const Task = require('../task');
-const {TaskPreconditions} = require('../../utils/constants');
-const TaskLlmOpenAI_S2S = require('./llms/openai_s2s');
-
-class TaskLlm extends Task {
-  constructor(logger, opts) {
-    super(logger, opts);
-    this.preconditions = TaskPreconditions.Endpoint;
-
-    ['vendor', 'model', 'auth', 'connectOptions'].forEach((prop) => {
-      this[prop] = this.data[prop];
-    });
-
-    this.eventHandlers = [];
-
-    // delegate to the specific llm model
-    this.llm = this.createSpecificLlm();
-  }
-
-  get name() { return this.llm.name ; }
-
-  get toolHook() { return this.llm?.toolHook; }
-
-  get eventHook() { return this.llm?.eventHook; }
-
-  get ep() { return this.cs.ep; }
-
-  async exec(cs, {ep}) {
-    await super.exec(cs, {ep});
-    await this.llm.exec(cs, {ep});
-  }
-
-  async kill(cs) {
-    super.kill(cs);
-    await this.llm.kill(cs);
-  }
-
-  createSpecificLlm() {
-    let llm;
-    switch (this.vendor) {
-      case 'openai':
-      case 'microsoft':
-        if (this.model.startsWith('gpt-4o-realtime')) {
-          llm = new TaskLlmOpenAI_S2S(this.logger, this.data, this);
-        }
-        break;
-      default:
-        throw new Error(`Unsupported vendor ${this.vendor} for LLM`);
-    }
-
-    if (!llm) {
-      throw new Error(`Unsupported vendor:model ${this.vendor}:${this.model}`);
-    }
-    return llm;
-  }
-
-  addCustomEventListener(ep, event, handler) {
-    this.eventHandlers.push({ep, event, handler});
-    ep.addCustomEventListener(event, handler);
-  }
-
-  removeCustomEventListeners() {
-    this.eventHandlers.forEach((h) => h.ep.removeCustomEventListener(h.event, h.handler));
-  }
-
-  async sendEventHook(data) {
-    await this.cs?.requestor.request('llm:event', this.eventHook, data);
-  }
-
-  async sendToolHook(tool_call_id, data) {
-    await this.cs?.requestor.request('llm:tool-call', this.toolHook, {tool_call_id, ...data});
-  }
-
-  async processToolOutput(tool_call_id, data) {
-    if (!this.ep.connected) {
-      this.logger.info('TaskLlm:processToolOutput - no connected endpoint');
-      return;
-    }
-    this.llm.processToolOutput(this.ep, tool_call_id, data);
-  }
-
-  async processLlmUpdate(data, callSid) {
-    if (this.ep.connected) {
-      if (typeof this.llm.processLlmUpdate === 'function') {
-        this.llm.processLlmUpdate(this.ep, data, callSid);
-      }
-      else {
-        const {vendor, model} = this.llm;
-        this.logger.info({data, callSid},
-          `TaskLlm:_processLlmUpdate: LLM ${vendor}:${model} does not support llm:update`);
-      }
-    }
-  }
-}
-
-module.exports = TaskLlm;
--- a/lib/tasks/llm/llms/openai_s2s.js
+++ b/lib/tasks/llm/llms/openai_s2s.js
@@ -1,357 +0,0 @@
-const Task = require('../../task');
-const TaskName = 'Llm_OpenAI_s2s';
-const {LlmEvents_OpenAI} = require('../../../utils/constants');
-const ClientEvent = 'client.event';
-const SessionDelete = 'session.delete';
-
-const openai_server_events = [
-  'error',
-  'session.created',
-  'session.updated',
-  'conversation.created',
-  'input_audio_buffer.committed',
-  'input_audio_buffer.cleared',
-  'input_audio_buffer.speech_started',
-  'input_audio_buffer.speech_stopped',
-  'conversation.item.created',
-  'conversation.item.input_audio_transcription.completed',
-  'conversation.item.input_audio_transcription.failed',
-  'conversation.item.truncated',
-  'conversation.item.deleted',
-  'response.created',
-  'response.done',
-  'response.output_item.added',
-  'response.output_item.done',
-  'response.content_part.added',
-  'response.content_part.done',
-  'response.text.delta',
-  'response.text.done',
-  'response.audio_transcript.delta',
-  'response.audio_transcript.done',
-  'response.audio.delta',
-  'response.audio.done',
-  'response.function_call_arguments.delta',
-  'response.function_call_arguments.done',
-  'rate_limits.updated',
-  'output_audio.playback_started',
-  'output_audio.playback_stopped',
-];
-
-const expandWildcards = (events) => {
-  const expandedEvents = [];
-
-  events.forEach((evt) => {
-    if (evt.endsWith('.*')) {
-      const prefix = evt.slice(0, -2); // Remove the wildcard ".*"
-      const matchingEvents = openai_server_events.filter((e) => e.startsWith(prefix));
-      expandedEvents.push(...matchingEvents);
-    } else {
-      expandedEvents.push(evt);
-    }
-  });
-
-  return expandedEvents;
-};
-
-class TaskLlmOpenAI_S2S extends Task {
-  constructor(logger, opts, parentTask) {
-    super(logger, opts, parentTask);
-    this.parent = parentTask;
-
-    this.vendor = this.parent.vendor;
-    this.model = this.parent.model;
-    this.auth = this.parent.auth;
-    this.connectionOptions = this.parent.connectOptions;
-
-    const {apiKey} = this.auth || {};
-    if (!apiKey) throw new Error('auth.apiKey is required for OpenAI S2S');
-
-    if (['openai', 'microsoft'].indexOf(this.vendor) === -1) {
-      throw new Error(`Invalid vendor ${this.vendor} for OpenAI S2S`);
-    }
-
-    if ('microsoft' === this.vendor && !this.connectionOptions?.host) {
-      throw new Error('connectionOptions.host is required for Microsoft OpenAI S2S');
-    }
-
-    this.apiKey = apiKey;
-    this.authType = 'microsoft' === this.vendor ? 'query' : 'bearer';
-    this.actionHook = this.data.actionHook;
-    this.eventHook = this.data.eventHook;
-    this.toolHook = this.data.toolHook;
-    const {response_create, session_update} = this.data.llmOptions;
-
-    if (typeof response_create !== 'object') {
-      throw new Error('llmOptions with an initial response.create is required for OpenAI S2S');
-    }
-
-    this.response_create = response_create;
-    this.session_update = session_update;
-
-    this.results = {
-      completionReason: 'normal conversation end'
-    };
-
-    /**
-     * only one of these will have items,
-     * if includeEvents, then these are the events to include
-     * if excludeEvents, then these are the events to exclude
-     */
-    this.includeEvents = [];
-    this.excludeEvents = [];
-
-    /* default to all events if user did not specify */
-    this._populateEvents(this.data.events || openai_server_events);
-
-    this.addCustomEventListener = parentTask.addCustomEventListener.bind(parentTask);
-    this.removeCustomEventListeners = parentTask.removeCustomEventListeners.bind(parentTask);
-  }
-
-  get name() { return TaskName; }
-
-  get host() {
-    const {host} = this.connectionOptions || {};
-    return host || (this.vendor === 'openai' ? 'api.openai.com' : void 0);
-  }
-
-  get path() {
-    const {path} = this.connectionOptions || {};
-    if (path) return path;
-
-    switch (this.vendor) {
-      case 'openai':
-        return 'v1/realtime?model=gpt-4o-realtime-preview-2024-10-01';
-      case 'microsoft':
-        return 'openai/realtime?api-version=2024-10-01-preview&deployment=gpt-4o-realtime-preview-1001&';
-    }
-  }
-
-  async _api(ep, args) {
-    const res = await ep.api('uuid_openai_s2s', `^^|${args.join('|')}`);
-    if (!res.body?.startsWith('+OK')) {
-      throw new Error({args}, `Error calling uuid_openai_s2s: ${res.body}`);
-    }
-  }
-
-  async exec(cs, {ep}) {
-    await super.exec(cs);
-
-    await this._startListening(cs, ep);
-
-    await this.awaitTaskDone();
-
-    /* note: the parent llm verb started the span, which is why this is necessary */
-    await this.parent.performAction(this.results);
-
-    this._unregisterHandlers();
-  }
-
-  async kill(cs) {
-    super.kill(cs);
-
-    this._api(cs.ep, [cs.ep.uuid, SessionDelete])
-      .catch((err) => this.logger.info({err}, 'TaskLlmOpenAI_S2S:kill - error deleting session'));
-
-    this.notifyTaskDone();
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Send function call output to the OpenAI server in the form of conversation.item.create
-   * per https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/realtime/function-calls
-   */
-  async processToolOutput(ep, tool_call_id, data) {
-    try {
-      this.logger.debug({tool_call_id, data}, 'TaskLlmOpenAI_S2S:processToolOutput');
-
-      if (!data.type || data.type !== 'conversation.item.create') {
-        this.logger.info({data},
-          'TaskLlmOpenAI_S2S:processToolOutput - invalid tool output, must be conversation.item.create');
-      }
-      else {
-        await this._api(ep, [ep.uuid, ClientEvent, JSON.stringify(data)]);
-
-        // spec also recommends to send immediate response.create
-        await this._api(ep, [ep.uuid, ClientEvent, JSON.stringify({type: 'response.create'})]);
-      }
-    } catch (err) {
-      this.logger.info({err}, 'TaskLlmOpenAI_S2S:processToolOutput');
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Send a session.update to the OpenAI server
-   * Note: creating and deleting conversation items also supported as well as interrupting the assistant
-   */
-  async processLlmUpdate(ep, data, _callSid) {
-    try {
-      this.logger.debug({data, _callSid}, 'TaskLlmOpenAI_S2S:processLlmUpdate');
-
-      if (!data.type || ![
-        'session.update',
-        'conversation.item.create',
-        'conversation.item.delete',
-        'response.cancel'
-      ].includes(data.type)) {
-        this.logger.info({data}, 'TaskLlmOpenAI_S2S:processLlmUpdate - invalid mid-call request');
-      }
-      else {
-        await this._api(ep, [ep.uuid, ClientEvent, JSON.stringify(data)]);
-      }
-    } catch (err) {
-      this.logger.info({err}, 'TaskLlmOpenAI_S2S:processLlmUpdate');
-    }
-  }
-
-  async _startListening(cs, ep) {
-    this._registerHandlers(ep);
-
-    try {
-      const args = [ep.uuid, 'session.create', this.host, this.path, this.authType, this.apiKey];
-      await this._api(ep, args);
-    } catch (err) {
-      this.logger.error({err}, 'TaskLlmOpenAI_S2S:_startListening');
-      this.notifyTaskDone();
-    }
-  }
-
-  async _sendClientEvent(ep, obj) {
-    let ok = true;
-    this.logger.debug({obj}, 'TaskLlmOpenAI_S2S:_sendClientEvent');
-    try {
-      const args = [ep.uuid, ClientEvent, JSON.stringify(obj)];
-      await this._api(ep, args);
-    } catch (err) {
-      ok = false;
-      this.logger.error({err}, 'TaskLlmOpenAI_S2S:_sendClientEvent - Error');
-    }
-    return ok;
-  }
-
-  async _sendInitialMessage(ep) {
-    let obj = {type: 'response.create', response: this.response_create};
-    if (!await this._sendClientEvent(ep, obj)) {
-      this.notifyTaskDone();
-    }
-
-    /* send immediate session.update if present */
-    else if (this.session_update) {
-      obj = {type: 'session.update', session: this.session_update};
-      this.logger.debug({obj}, 'TaskLlmOpenAI_S2S:_sendInitialMessage - sending session.update');
-      if (!await this._sendClientEvent(ep, obj)) {
-        this.notifyTaskDone();
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
-  _registerHandlers(ep) {
-    this.addCustomEventListener(ep, LlmEvents_OpenAI.Connect, this._onConnect.bind(this, ep));
-    this.addCustomEventListener(ep, LlmEvents_OpenAI.ConnectFailure, this._onConnectFailure.bind(this, ep));
-    this.addCustomEventListener(ep, LlmEvents_OpenAI.Disconnect, this._onDisconnect.bind(this, ep));
-    this.addCustomEventListener(ep, LlmEvents_OpenAI.ServerEvent, this._onServerEvent.bind(this, ep));
-  }
-
-  _unregisterHandlers() {
-    this.removeCustomEventListeners();
-  }
-
-  _onError(ep, evt) {
-    this.logger.info({evt}, 'TaskLlmOpenAI_S2S:_onError');
-    this.notifyTaskDone();
-  }
-
-  _onConnect(ep) {
-    this.logger.debug('TaskLlmOpenAI_S2S:_onConnect');
-    this._sendInitialMessage(ep);
-  }
-  _onConnectFailure(_ep, evt) {
-    this.logger.info(evt, 'TaskLlmOpenAI_S2S:_onConnectFailure');
-    this.results = {completionReason: 'connection failure'};
-    this.notifyTaskDone();
-  }
-  _onDisconnect(_ep, evt) {
-    this.logger.info(evt, 'TaskLlmOpenAI_S2S:_onConnectFailure');
-    this.results = {completionReason: 'disconnect from remote end'};
-    this.notifyTaskDone();
-  }
-  async _onServerEvent(ep, evt) {
-    let endConversation = false;
-    const type = evt.type;
-    this.logger.info({evt}, 'TaskLlmOpenAI_S2S:_onServerEvent');
-
-    /* check for failures, such as rate limit exceeded, that should terminate the conversation */
-    if (type === 'response.done' && evt.response.status === 'failed') {
-      endConversation = true;
-      this.results = {
-        completionReason: 'server failure',
-        error: evt.response.status_details?.error
-      };
-    }
-
-    /* server errors of some sort */
-    else if (type === 'error') {
-      endConversation = true;
-      this.results = {
-        completionReason: 'server error',
-        error: evt.error
-      };
-    }
-
-    /* tool calls */
-    else if (type === 'response.output_item.done' && evt.item?.type === 'function_call') {
-      this.logger.debug({evt}, 'TaskLlmOpenAI_S2S:_onServerEvent - function_call');
-      if (!this.toolHook) {
-        this.logger.warn({evt}, 'TaskLlmOpenAI_S2S:_onServerEvent - no toolHook defined!');
-      }
-      else {
-        const {name, call_id} = evt.item;
-        const args = JSON.parse(evt.item.arguments);
-
-        try {
-          await this.parent.sendToolHook(call_id, {name, args});
-        } catch (err) {
-          this.logger.info({err, evt}, 'TaskLlmOpenAI - error calling function');
-          this.results = {
-            completionReason: 'client error calling function',
-            error: err
-          };
-          endConversation = true;
-        }
-      }
-    }
-
-    /* check whether we should notify on this event */
-    if (this.includeEvents.length > 0 ? this.includeEvents.includes(type) : !this.excludeEvents.includes(type)) {
-      this.parent.sendEventHook(evt)
-        .catch((err) => this.logger.info({err}, 'TaskLlmOpenAI_S2S:_onServerEvent - error sending event hook'));
-    }
-
-    if (endConversation) {
-      this.logger.info({results: this.results}, 'TaskLlmOpenAI_S2S:_onServerEvent - ending conversation due to error');
-      this.notifyTaskDone();
-    }
-  }
-
-  _populateEvents(events) {
-    if (events.includes('all')) {
-      /* work by excluding specific events */
-      const exclude = events
-        .filter((evt) => evt.startsWith('-'))
-        .map((evt) => evt.slice(1));
-      if (exclude.length === 0) this.includeEvents = openai_server_events;
-      else this.excludeEvents = expandWildcards(exclude);
-    }
-    else {
-      /* work by including specific events */
-      const include = events
-        .filter((evt) => !evt.startsWith('-'));
-      this.includeEvents = expandWildcards(include);
-    }
-
-    this.logger.debug({
-      includeEvents: this.includeEvents,
-      excludeEvents: this.excludeEvents
-    }, 'TaskLlmOpenAI_S2S:_populateEvents');
-  }
-}
-
-module.exports = TaskLlmOpenAI_S2S;
--- a/lib/tasks/make_task.js
+++ b/lib/tasks/make_task.js
@@ -14,9 +14,6 @@ function makeTask(logger, obj, parent) {
  }
  validateVerb(name, data, logger);
  switch (name) {
-    case TaskName.Answer:
-      const TaskAnswer = require('./answer');
-      return new TaskAnswer(logger, data, parent);
    case TaskName.SipDecline:
      const TaskSipDecline = require('./sip_decline');
      return new TaskSipDecline(logger, data, parent);
@@ -44,9 +41,6 @@ function makeTask(logger, obj, parent) {
    case TaskName.Dtmf:
      const TaskDtmf = require('./dtmf');
      return new TaskDtmf(logger, data, parent);
-    case TaskName.Dub:
-      const TaskDub = require('./dub');
-      return new TaskDub(logger, data, parent);
    case TaskName.Enqueue:
      const TaskEnqueue = require('./enqueue');
      return new TaskEnqueue(logger, data, parent);
@@ -62,9 +56,6 @@ function makeTask(logger, obj, parent) {
    case TaskName.Message:
      const TaskMessage = require('./message');
      return new TaskMessage(logger, data, parent);
-    case TaskName.Llm:
-      const TaskLlm = require('./llm');
-      return new TaskLlm(logger, data, parent);
    case TaskName.Rasa:
      const TaskRasa = require('./rasa');
      return new TaskRasa(logger, data, parent);
--- a/lib/tasks/rest_dial.js
+++ b/lib/tasks/rest_dial.js
@@ -12,13 +12,11 @@ class TaskRestDial extends Task {

    this.from = this.data.from;
    this.callerName = this.data.callerName;
-    this.timeLimit = this.data.timeLimit;
    this.fromHost = this.data.fromHost;
    this.to = this.data.to;
    this.call_hook = this.data.call_hook;
    this.timeout = this.data.timeout || 60;
    this.sipRequestWithinDialogHook = this.data.sipRequestWithinDialogHook;
-    this.referHook = this.data.referHook;

    this.on('connect', this._onConnect.bind(this));
    this.on('callStatus', this._onCallStatus.bind(this));
@@ -40,9 +38,9 @@ class TaskRestDial extends Task {

    if (this.data.amd) {
      this.startAmd = cs.startAmd;
+      this.stopAmd = cs.stopAmd;
      this.on('amd', this._onAmdEvent.bind(this, cs));
    }
-    this.stopAmd = cs.stopAmd;

    this._setCallTimer();
    await this.awaitTaskDone();
@@ -66,10 +64,6 @@ class TaskRestDial extends Task {
    this.canCancel = false;
    const cs = this.callSession;
    cs.setDialog(dlg);
-    cs.referHook = this.referHook;
-    if (this.timeLimit) {
-      cs.startMaxCallDurationTimer(this.timeLimit);
-    }
    this.logger.debug('TaskRestDial:_onConnect - call connected');
    if (this.sipRequestWithinDialogHook) this._initSipRequestWithinDialogHandler(cs, dlg);
    try {
--- a/lib/tasks/say.js
+++ b/lib/tasks/say.js
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
-const TtsTask = require('./tts-task');
+const Task = require('./task');
 const {TaskName, TaskPreconditions} = require('../utils/constants');
 const pollySSMLSplit = require('polly-ssml-split');
-const { SpeechCredentialError } = require('../utils/error');

 const breakLengthyTextIfNeeded = (logger,  text) => {
  const chunkSize = 1000;
@@ -24,15 +23,9 @@ const breakLengthyTextIfNeeded = (logger,  text) => {
  }
 };

-const parseTextFromSayString = (text) => {
-  const closingBraceIndex = text.indexOf('}');
-  if (closingBraceIndex === -1) return text;
-  return text.slice(closingBraceIndex + 1);
-};
-
-class TaskSay extends TtsTask {
+class TaskSay extends Task {
  constructor(logger, opts, parentTask) {
-    super(logger, opts, parentTask);
+    super(logger, opts);
    this.preconditions = TaskPreconditions.Endpoint;

    this.text = (Array.isArray(this.data.text) ? this.data.text : [this.data.text])
@@ -40,6 +33,10 @@ class TaskSay extends TtsTask {
      .flat();

    this.loop = this.data.loop || 1;
+    this.earlyMedia = this.data.earlyMedia === true || (parentTask && parentTask.earlyMedia);
+    this.synthesizer = this.data.synthesizer || {};
+    this.disableTtsCache = this.data.disableTtsCache;
+    this.options = this.synthesizer.options || {};
    this.isHandledByPrimaryProvider = true;
  }

@@ -62,41 +59,148 @@ class TaskSay extends TtsTask {
    }
  }

-  async exec(cs, obj) {
-    try {
-      await this.handling(cs, obj);
-      this.emit('playDone');
-    } catch (error) {
-      if (error instanceof SpeechCredentialError) {
-        // if say failed due to speech credentials, alarm is writtern and error notification is sent
-        // finished this say to move to next task.
-        this.logger.info('Say failed due to SpeechCredentialError, finished!');
-        this.emit('playDone');
-        return;
+  async _synthesizeWithSpecificVendor(cs, ep, {vendor, language, voice, label, preCache = false}) {
+    const {srf} = cs;
+    const {updateSpeechCredentialLastUsed} = require('../utils/db-utils')(this.logger, srf);
+    const {writeAlerts, AlertType, stats} = srf.locals;
+    const {synthAudio} = srf.locals.dbHelpers;
+    const engine = this.synthesizer.engine || 'standard';
+    const salt = cs.callSid;
+
+    let credentials = cs.getSpeechCredentials(vendor, 'tts', label);
+    /* parse Nuance voices into name and model */
+    let model;
+    if (vendor === 'nuance' && voice) {
+      const arr = /([A-Za-z-]*)\s+-\s+(enhanced|standard)/.exec(voice);
+      if (arr) {
+        voice = arr[1];
+        model = arr[2];
      }
-      throw error;
+    } else if (vendor === 'deepgram') {
+      model = voice;
    }
+
+    /* allow for microsoft custom region voice and api_key to be specified as an override */
+    if (vendor === 'microsoft' && this.options.deploymentId) {
+      credentials = credentials || {};
+      credentials.use_custom_tts = true;
+      credentials.custom_tts_endpoint = this.options.deploymentId;
+      credentials.api_key = this.options.apiKey || credentials.apiKey;
+      credentials.region = this.options.region || credentials.region;
+      voice = this.options.voice || voice;
+    } else if (vendor === 'elevenlabs') {
+      credentials = credentials || {};
+      credentials.model_id = this.options.model_id || credentials.model_id;
+      credentials.voice_settings = this.options.voice_settings || {};
+      credentials.optimize_streaming_latency = this.options.optimize_streaming_latency
+      || credentials.optimize_streaming_latency;
+      voice = this.options.voice_id || voice;
+    }
+
+    if (!preCache) this.logger.info({vendor, language, voice, model}, 'TaskSay:exec');
+    try {
+      if (!credentials) {
+        writeAlerts({
+          account_sid: cs.accountSid,
+          alert_type: AlertType.TTS_NOT_PROVISIONED,
+          vendor
+        }).catch((err) => this.logger.info({err}, 'Error generating alert for no tts'));
+        this.notifyError({
+          msg: 'TTS error',
+          details:`No speech credentials provisioned for selected vendor ${vendor}`
+        });
+        throw new Error('no provisioned speech credentials for TTS');
+      }
+      // synthesize all of the text elements
+      let lastUpdated = false;
+
+      /* produce an audio segment from the provided text */
+      const generateAudio = async(text) => {
+        if (this.killed) return;
+        if (text.startsWith('silence_stream://')) return text;
+
+        /* otel: trace time for tts */
+        let otelSpan;
+        if (!preCache)  {
+          const {span} = this.startChildSpan('tts-generation', {
+            'tts.vendor': vendor,
+            'tts.language': language,
+            'tts.voice': voice
+          });
+          otelSpan = span;
+        }
+        try {
+          const {filePath, servedFromCache, rtt} = await synthAudio(stats, {
+            account_sid: cs.accountSid,
+            text,
+            vendor,
+            language,
+            voice,
+            engine,
+            model,
+            salt,
+            credentials,
+            options: this.options,
+            disableTtsCache : this.disableTtsCache
+          });
+          this.logger.debug(`file ${filePath}, served from cache ${servedFromCache}`);
+          if (filePath) cs.trackTmpFile(filePath);
+          if (!servedFromCache && !lastUpdated) {
+            lastUpdated = true;
+            updateSpeechCredentialLastUsed(credentials.speech_credential_sid)
+              .catch(() => {/*already logged error */});
+          }
+          if (otelSpan) otelSpan.setAttributes({'tts.cached': servedFromCache});
+          if (otelSpan) otelSpan.end();
+          if (!servedFromCache && rtt && !preCache) {
+            this.notifyStatus({
+              event: 'synthesized-audio',
+              vendor,
+              language,
+              characters: text.length,
+              elapsedTime: rtt
+            });
+          }
+          return filePath;
+        } catch (err) {
+          this.logger.info({err}, 'Error synthesizing tts');
+          if (otelSpan) otelSpan.end();
+          writeAlerts({
+            account_sid: cs.accountSid,
+            alert_type: AlertType.TTS_FAILURE,
+            vendor,
+            detail: err.message
+          }).catch((err) => this.logger.info({err}, 'Error generating alert for tts failure'));
+          this.notifyError({msg: 'TTS error', details: err.message || err});
+          throw err;
+        }
+      };
+
+      const arr = this.text.map((t) => (this._validateURL(t) ? t : generateAudio(t)));
+      return (await Promise.all(arr)).filter((fp) => fp && fp.length);
+    } catch (err) {
+      this.logger.info(err, 'TaskSay:exec error');
+      throw err;
+    }
+
  }

-  async handling(cs, {ep}) {
-    const {srf, accountSid:account_sid, callSid:target_sid} = cs;
-    const {writeAlerts, AlertType} = srf.locals;
-    const {addFileToCache} = srf.locals.dbHelpers;
-    const engine = this.synthesizer.engine || cs.synthesizer?.engine || 'neural';
-
+  async exec(cs, {ep}) {
    await super.exec(cs);
    this.ep = ep;

-    let vendor = this.synthesizer.vendor && this.synthesizer.vendor !== 'default' ?
+    const vendor = this.synthesizer.vendor && this.synthesizer.vendor !== 'default' ?
      this.synthesizer.vendor :
      cs.speechSynthesisVendor;
-    let language = this.synthesizer.language && this.synthesizer.language !== 'default' ?
+    const language = this.synthesizer.language && this.synthesizer.language !== 'default' ?
      this.synthesizer.language :
      cs.speechSynthesisLanguage ;
-    let voice =  this.synthesizer.voice && this.synthesizer.voice !== 'default' ?
+    const voice =  this.synthesizer.voice && this.synthesizer.voice !== 'default' ?
      this.synthesizer.voice :
      cs.speechSynthesisVoice;
-    let label = this.taskInlcudeSynthesizer ? this.synthesizer.label : cs.speechSynthesisLabel;
+    const label = this.synthesizer.label && this.synthesizer.label !== 'default' ?
+      this.synthesizer.label :
+      cs.speechSynthesisLabel;

    const fallbackVendor = this.synthesizer.fallbackVendor && this.synthesizer.fallbackVendor !== 'default' ?
      this.synthesizer.fallbackVendor :
@@ -107,22 +211,16 @@ class TaskSay extends TtsTask {
    const fallbackVoice =  this.synthesizer.fallbackVoice && this.synthesizer.fallbackVoice !== 'default' ?
      this.synthesizer.fallbackVoice :
      cs.fallbackSpeechSynthesisVoice;
-    const fallbackLabel = this.taskInlcudeSynthesizer ?
-      this.synthesizer.fallbackLabel : cs.fallbackSpeechSynthesisLabel;
+    const fallbackLabel = this.synthesizer.fallbackLabel && this.synthesizer.fallbackLabel !== 'default' ?
+      this.synthesizer.fallbackLabel :
+      cs.fallbackSpeechSynthesisLabel;

-    if (cs.hasFallbackTts) {
-      vendor = fallbackVendor;
-      language = fallbackLanguage;
-      voice = fallbackVoice;
-      label = fallbackLabel;
-    }
-
-    const startFallback = async(error) => {
-      if (fallbackVendor && this.isHandledByPrimaryProvider && !cs.hasFallbackTts) {
-        this.notifyError(
-          { msg: 'TTS error', details:`TTS vendor ${vendor} error: ${error}`, failover: 'in progress'});
+    let filepath;
+    try {
+      filepath = await this._synthesizeWithSpecificVendor(cs, ep, {vendor, language, voice, label});
+    } catch (error) {
+      if (fallbackVendor && this.isHandledByPrimaryProvider) {
        this.isHandledByPrimaryProvider = false;
-        cs.hasFallbackTts = true;
        this.logger.info(`Synthesize error, fallback to ${fallbackVendor}`);
        filepath = await this._synthesizeWithSpecificVendor(cs, ep,
          {
@@ -132,110 +230,34 @@ class TaskSay extends TtsTask {
            label: fallbackLabel
          });
      } else {
-        this.notifyError(
-          { msg: 'TTS error', details:`TTS vendor ${vendor} error: ${error}`, failover: 'not available'});
-        throw new SpeechCredentialError(error.message);
+        throw error;
      }
-    };
-    let filepath;
-    try {
-      filepath = await this._synthesizeWithSpecificVendor(cs, ep, {vendor, language, voice, label});
-    } catch (error) {
-      await startFallback(error);
    }
    this.notifyStatus({event: 'start-playback'});

-    while (!this.killed && (this.loop === 'forever' || this.loop--) && ep?.connected) {
+    while (!this.killed && (this.loop === 'forever' || this.loop--) && this.ep?.connected) {
      let segment = 0;
      while (!this.killed && segment < filepath.length) {
        if (cs.isInConference) {
          const {memberId, confName, confUuid} = cs;
-          await this.playToConfMember(ep, memberId, confName, confUuid, filepath[segment]);
+          await this.playToConfMember(this.ep, memberId, confName, confUuid, filepath[segment]);
        }
        else {
-          const isStreaming = filepath[segment].startsWith('say:{');
-          if (isStreaming) {
-            const arr = /^say:\{.*\}\s*(.*)$/.exec(filepath[segment]);
-            if (arr) this.logger.debug(`Say:exec sending streaming tts request: ${arr[1].substring(0, 64)}..`);
-          }
-          else this.logger.debug(`Say:exec sending ${filepath[segment].substring(0, 64)}`);
-          ep.once('playback-start', (evt) => {
-            this.logger.debug({evt}, 'Say got playback-start');
-            if (this.otelSpan) {
-              this._addStreamingTtsAttributes(this.otelSpan, evt);
-              this.otelSpan.end();
-              this.otelSpan = null;
-              if (evt.variable_tts_cache_filename) {
-                cs.trackTmpFile(evt.variable_tts_cache_filename);
-              }
-            }
-          });
-          ep.once('playback-stop', (evt) => {
-            this.logger.debug({evt}, 'Say got playback-stop');
-            if (evt.variable_tts_error) {
-              writeAlerts({
-                account_sid,
-                alert_type: AlertType.TTS_FAILURE,
-                vendor,
-                detail: evt.variable_tts_error,
-                target_sid
-              }).catch((err) => this.logger.info({err}, 'Error generating alert for no tts'));
-            }
-            if (evt.variable_tts_cache_filename && !this.killed) {
-              const text = parseTextFromSayString(this.text[segment]);
-              addFileToCache(evt.variable_tts_cache_filename, {
-                account_sid,
-                vendor,
-                language,
-                voice,
-                engine,
-                text
-              }).catch((err) => this.logger.info({err}, 'Error adding file to cache'));
-            }
-
-            if (this._playResolve) {
-              evt.variable_tts_error ? this._playReject(new Error(evt.variable_tts_error)) : this._playResolve();
-            }
-          });
-          // wait for playback-stop event received to confirm if the playback is successful
-          this._playPromise = new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-            this._playResolve = resolve;
-            this._playReject = reject;
-          });
-          const r = await ep.play(filepath[segment]);
-          this.logger.debug({r}, 'Say:exec play result');
-          try {
-            // wait for playback-stop event received to confirm if the playback is successful
-            await this._playPromise;
-          } catch (err) {
-            try {
-              await startFallback(err);
-              continue;
-            } catch (err) {
-              this.logger.info({err}, 'Error waiting for playback-stop event');
-              throw err;
-            }
-          } finally {
-            this._playPromise = null;
-            this._playResolve = null;
-            this._playReject = null;
-          }
-          if (filepath[segment].startsWith('say:{')) {
-            const arr = /^say:\{.*\}\s*(.*)$/.exec(filepath[segment]);
-            if (arr) this.logger.debug(`Say:exec complete playing streaming tts request: ${arr[1].substring(0, 64)}..`);
-          } else {
-            // This log will print spech credentials in say command for tts stream mode
-            this.logger.debug(`Say:exec completed play file ${filepath[segment]}`);
-          }
+          this.logger.debug(`Say:exec sending command to play file ${filepath[segment]}`);
+          const {span} = this.startChildSpan('start-audio');
+          this.ep.once('playback-start', ({file}) => span?.end());
+          await ep.play(filepath[segment]);
+          this.logger.debug(`Say:exec completed play file ${filepath[segment]}`);
        }
        segment++;
      }
    }
+    this.emit('playDone');
  }

  async kill(cs) {
    super.kill(cs);
-    if (this.ep?.connected) {
+    if (this.ep.connected) {
      this.logger.debug('TaskSay:kill - killing audio');
      if (cs.isInConference) {
        const {memberId, confName} = cs;
@@ -245,78 +267,9 @@ class TaskSay extends TtsTask {
        this.notifyStatus({event: 'kill-playback'});
        this.ep.api('uuid_break', this.ep.uuid);
      }
-      this.ep.removeAllListeners('playback-start');
-      this.ep.removeAllListeners('playback-stop');
-      // if we are waiting for playback-stop event, resolve the promise
-      if (this._playResolve) {
-        this._playResolve();
-        this._playResolve = null;
-      }
+      this.ep.removeEventListeners('playback-start');
    }
  }
-
-  _addStreamingTtsAttributes(span, evt) {
-    const attrs = {'tts.cached': false};
-    for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(evt)) {
-      if (key.startsWith('variable_tts_')) {
-        let newKey = key.substring('variable_tts_'.length)
-          .replace('whisper_', 'whisper.')
-          .replace('deepgram_', 'deepgram.')
-          .replace('playht_', 'playht.')
-          .replace('rimelabs_', 'rimelabs.')
-          .replace('verbio_', 'verbio.')
-          .replace('elevenlabs_', 'elevenlabs.');
-        if (spanMapping[newKey]) newKey = spanMapping[newKey];
-        attrs[newKey] = value;
-      }
-    }
-    delete attrs['cache_filename']; //no value in adding this to the span
-    span.setAttributes(attrs);
-  }
 }

-const spanMapping = {
-  // IMPORTANT!!! JAMBONZ WEBAPP WILL SHOW TEXT PERFECTLY IF THE SPAN NAME IS SMALLER OR EQUAL 25 CHARACTERS.
-  // EX: whisper.ratelim_reqs has length 20 <= 25 which is perfect
-  // Elevenlabs
-  'elevenlabs.reported_latency_ms': 'elevenlabs.latency_ms',
-  'elevenlabs.request_id': 'elevenlabs.req_id',
-  'elevenlabs.history_item_id': 'elevenlabs.item_id',
-  'elevenlabs.optimize_streaming_latency': 'elevenlabs.optimization',
-  'elevenlabs.name_lookup_time_ms': 'name_lookup_ms',
-  'elevenlabs.connect_time_ms': 'connect_ms',
-  'elevenlabs.final_response_time_ms': 'final_response_ms',
-  // Whisper
-  'whisper.reported_latency_ms': 'whisper.latency_ms',
-  'whisper.request_id': 'whisper.req_id',
-  'whisper.reported_organization': 'whisper.organization',
-  'whisper.reported_ratelimit_requests': 'whisper.ratelimit',
-  'whisper.reported_ratelimit_remaining_requests': 'whisper.ratelimit_remain',
-  'whisper.reported_ratelimit_reset_requests': 'whisper.ratelimit_reset',
-  'whisper.name_lookup_time_ms': 'name_lookup_ms',
-  'whisper.connect_time_ms': 'connect_ms',
-  'whisper.final_response_time_ms': 'final_response_ms',
-  // Deepgram
-  'deepgram.request_id': 'deepgram.req_id',
-  'deepgram.reported_model_name': 'deepgram.model_name',
-  'deepgram.reported_model_uuid': 'deepgram.model_uuid',
-  'deepgram.reported_char_count': 'deepgram.char_count',
-  'deepgram.name_lookup_time_ms': 'name_lookup_ms',
-  'deepgram.connect_time_ms': 'connect_ms',
-  'deepgram.final_response_time_ms': 'final_response_ms',
-  // Playht
-  'playht.request_id': 'playht.req_id',
-  'playht.name_lookup_time_ms': 'name_lookup_ms',
-  'playht.connect_time_ms': 'connect_ms',
-  'playht.final_response_time_ms': 'final_response_ms',
-  // Rimelabs
-  'rimelabs.name_lookup_time_ms': 'name_lookup_ms',
-  'rimelabs.connect_time_ms': 'connect_ms',
-  'rimelabs.final_response_time_ms': 'final_response_ms',
-  // verbio
-  'verbio.name_lookup_time_ms': 'name_lookup_ms',
-  'verbio.connect_time_ms': 'connect_ms',
-  'verbio.final_response_time_ms': 'final_response_ms',
-};
-
 module.exports = TaskSay;
--- a/lib/tasks/stt-task.js
+++ b/lib/tasks/stt-task.js
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@ const Task = require('./task');
 const assert = require('assert');
 const crypto = require('crypto');
 const { TaskPreconditions, CobaltTranscriptionEvents } = require('../utils/constants');
-const { SpeechCredentialError } = require('../utils/error');
-const {JAMBONES_AWS_TRANSCRIBE_USE_GRPC} = require('../config');

 class SttTask extends Task {

@@ -18,22 +16,14 @@ class SttTask extends Task {
      normalizeTranscription,
      setSpeechCredentialsAtRuntime,
      compileSonioxTranscripts,
-      consolidateTranscripts,
-      updateSpeechmaticsPayload
+      consolidateTranscripts
    } = require('../utils/transcription-utils')(logger);
    this.setChannelVarsForStt = setChannelVarsForStt;
    this.normalizeTranscription = normalizeTranscription;
    this.compileSonioxTranscripts = compileSonioxTranscripts;
    this.consolidateTranscripts = consolidateTranscripts;
-    this.updateSpeechmaticsPayload = updateSpeechmaticsPayload;
    this.eventHandlers = [];
    this.isHandledByPrimaryProvider = true;
-    /**
-     * Task use taskIncludeRecognizer to identify
-     * if taskIncludeRecognizer === true, use label from verb.recognizer, even it's empty
-     * if taskIncludeRecognizer === false, use label from application.recognizer
-     */
-    this.taskIncludeRecognizer = !!this.data.recognizer;
    if (this.data.recognizer) {
      const recognizer = this.data.recognizer;
      this.vendor = recognizer.vendor;
@@ -43,7 +33,7 @@ class SttTask extends Task {
      //fallback
      this.fallbackVendor = recognizer.fallbackVendor || 'default';
      this.fallbackLanguage = recognizer.fallbackLanguage || 'default';
-      this.fallbackLabel = recognizer.fallbackLabel;
+      this.fallbackLabel = recognizer.fallbackLabel || 'default';

      /* let credentials be supplied in the recognizer object at runtime */
      this.sttCredentials = setSpeechCredentialsAtRuntime(recognizer);
@@ -66,20 +56,24 @@ class SttTask extends Task {
    super.exec(cs);
    this.ep = ep;
    this.ep2 = ep2;
-
-    // use session preferences if we don't have specific verb-level settings.
+    // copy all value from config verb to this object.
    if (cs.recognizer) {
      for (const k in cs.recognizer) {
-        const newValue = this.data.recognizer && this.data.recognizer[k] !== undefined ?
-          this.data.recognizer[k] :
-          cs.recognizer[k];
-
-        if (Array.isArray(newValue)) {
-          this.data.recognizer[k] = [...(this.data.recognizer[k] || []), ...cs.recognizer[k]];
-        } else if (typeof newValue === 'object' && newValue !== null) {
-          this.data.recognizer[k] = { ...(this.data.recognizer[k] || {}), ...cs.recognizer[k] };
+        if (Array.isArray(this.data.recognizer[k]) ||
+        Array.isArray(cs.recognizer[k])) {
+          this.data.recognizer[k] = [
+            ...this.data.recognizer[k],
+            ...cs.recognizer[k]
+          ];
+        } else if (typeof this.data.recognizer[k] === 'object' ||
+        typeof cs.recognizer[k] === 'object'
+        ) {
+          this.data.recognizer[k] = {
+            ...this.data.recognizer[k],
+            ...cs.recognizer[k]
+          };
        } else {
-          this.data.recognizer[k] = newValue;
+          this.data.recognizer[k] = cs.recognizer[k] || this.data.recognizer[k];
        }
      }
    }
@@ -91,7 +85,7 @@ class SttTask extends Task {
      this.language = cs.speechRecognizerLanguage;
      if (this.data.recognizer) this.data.recognizer.language = this.language;
    }
-    if (!this.taskIncludeRecognizer) {
+    if ('default' === this.label || !this.label) {
      this.label = cs.speechRecognizerLabel;
      if (this.data.recognizer) this.data.recognizer.label = this.label;
    }
@@ -104,22 +98,10 @@ class SttTask extends Task {
      this.fallbackLanguage = cs.fallbackSpeechRecognizerLanguage;
      if (this.data.recognizer) this.data.recognizer.fallbackLanguage = this.fallbackLanguage;
    }
-    if (!this.taskIncludeRecognizer) {
+    if ('default' === this.fallbackLabel || !this.fallbackLabel) {
      this.fallbackLabel = cs.fallbackSpeechRecognizerLabel;
      if (this.data.recognizer) this.data.recognizer.fallbackLabel = this.fallbackLabel;
    }
-
-    if (cs.hasFallbackAsr) {
-      if (this.taskIncludeRecognizer) {
-        // reset fallback ASR from previous run if this verb contains data.recognizer.
-        cs.hasFallbackAsr = false;
-      } else {
-        this.logger.debug('Call session has fallback to 2nd ASR, use 2nd recognizer configuration');
-        this.vendor = this.fallbackVendor;
-        this.language = this.fallbackLanguage;
-        this.label = this.fallbackLabel;
-      }
-    }
    if (!this.data.recognizer.vendor) {
      this.data.recognizer.vendor = this.vendor;
    }
@@ -128,28 +110,13 @@ class SttTask extends Task {
      this.data.recognizer.model = cs.speechRecognizerLanguage;
    }

-    if (
-      // not gather task, such as transcribe
-      (!this.input ||
-      // gather task with speech
-        this.input.includes('speech')) &&
-      !this.sttCredentials) {
+    if (!this.sttCredentials) {
      try {
        this.sttCredentials = await this._initSpeechCredentials(this.cs, this.vendor, this.label);
      } catch (error) {
-        if (this.canFallback) {
-          this.notifyError(
-            {
-              msg: 'ASR error', details:`Invalid vendor ${this.vendor}, Error: ${error}`,
-              failover: 'in progress'
-            });
-          await this._initFallback();
+        if (this.fallbackVendor && this.isHandledByPrimaryProvider) {
+          await this._fallback();
        } else {
-          this.notifyError(
-            {
-              msg: 'ASR error', details:`Invalid vendor ${this.vendor}, Error: ${error}`,
-              failover: 'not available'
-            });
          throw error;
        }
      }
@@ -181,7 +148,7 @@ class SttTask extends Task {
  }

  async _initSpeechCredentials(cs, vendor, label) {
-    const {getNuanceAccessToken, getIbmAccessToken, getAwsAuthToken, getVerbioAccessToken} = cs.srf.locals.dbHelpers;
+    const {getNuanceAccessToken, getIbmAccessToken} = cs.srf.locals.dbHelpers;
    let credentials = cs.getSpeechCredentials(vendor, 'stt', label);

    if (!credentials) {
@@ -190,11 +157,15 @@ class SttTask extends Task {
      writeAlerts({
        account_sid: cs.accountSid,
        alert_type: AlertType.STT_NOT_PROVISIONED,
-        vendor,
-        target_sid: cs.callSid
+        vendor
      }).catch((err) => this.logger.info({err}, 'Error generating alert for no stt'));
-      // the ASR might have fallback configuration, should not done task here.
-      throw new SpeechCredentialError(`No speech-to-text service credentials for ${vendor} have been configured`);
+      // Notify application that STT vender is wrong.
+      this.notifyError({
+        msg: 'ASR error',
+        details: `No speech-to-text service credentials for ${vendor} have been configured`
+      });
+      this.notifyTaskDone();
+      throw new Error(`No speech-to-text service credentials for ${vendor} have been configured`);
    }

    if (vendor === 'nuance' && credentials.client_id) {
@@ -210,54 +181,21 @@ class SttTask extends Task {
      const {access_token, servedFromCache} = await getIbmAccessToken(stt_api_key);
      this.logger.debug({stt_api_key}, `got ibm access token ${servedFromCache ? 'from cache' : ''}`);
      credentials = {...credentials, access_token, stt_region};
-    } else if (['aws', 'polly'].includes(vendor) && credentials.roleArn) {
-      /* get aws access token */
-      const {roleArn, region} = credentials;
-      const {accessKeyId, secretAccessKey, sessionToken, servedFromCache} =
-        await getAwsAuthToken({
-          region,
-          roleArn
-        });
-      this.logger.debug({roleArn}, `(roleArn) got aws access token ${servedFromCache ? 'from cache' : ''}`);
-      credentials = {...credentials, accessKeyId, secretAccessKey, sessionToken};
    }
-    else if (vendor === 'verbio' && credentials.client_id && credentials.client_secret) {
-      const {access_token, servedFromCache} = await getVerbioAccessToken(credentials);
-      this.logger.debug({client_id: credentials.client_id},
-        `got verbio access token ${servedFromCache ? 'from cache' : ''}`);
-      credentials.access_token = access_token;
-    }
-    else if (vendor == 'aws' && !JAMBONES_AWS_TRANSCRIBE_USE_GRPC) {
-      /* get AWS access token */
-      const {accessKeyId, secretAccessKey, securityToken, region } = credentials;
-      if (!securityToken) {
-        const { servedFromCache, ...newCredentials} = await getAwsAuthToken({accessKeyId, secretAccessKey, region});
-        this.logger.debug({newCredentials}, `got aws security token ${servedFromCache ? 'from cache' : ''}`);
-        credentials = {...newCredentials, region};
-      }
-    }
-
    return credentials;
  }

-  get canFallback() {
-    return this.fallbackVendor && this.isHandledByPrimaryProvider && !this.cs.hasFallbackAsr;
-  }
-
-  async _initFallback() {
+  async _fallback() {
    assert(this.fallbackVendor, 'fallback failed without fallbackVendor configuration');
-    this.logger.info(`Failed to use primary STT provider, fallback to ${this.fallbackVendor}`);
    this.isHandledByPrimaryProvider = false;
-    this.cs.hasFallbackAsr = true;
-    this.vendor = this.cs.fallbackSpeechRecognizerVendor = this.fallbackVendor;
-    this.language = this.cs.fallbackSpeechRecognizerLanguage = this.fallbackLanguage;
-    this.label = this.cs.fallbackSpeechRecognizerLabel = this.fallbackLabel;
+    this.logger.info(`Failed to use primary STT provider, fallback to ${this.fallbackVendor}`);
+    this.vendor = this.fallbackVendor;
+    this.language = this.fallbackLanguage;
+    this.label = this.fallbackLabel;
    this.data.recognizer.vendor = this.vendor;
    this.data.recognizer.language = this.language;
    this.data.recognizer.label = this.label;
    this.sttCredentials = await this._initSpeechCredentials(this.cs, this.vendor, this.label);
-    // cleanup previous listener from previous vendor
-    this.removeCustomEventListeners();
  }

  async compileHintsForCobalt(ep, hostport, model, token, hints) {
@@ -301,20 +239,6 @@ class SttTask extends Task {
  _doContinuousAsrWithDeepgram(asrTimeout) {
    /* deepgram has an utterance_end_ms property that simplifies things */
    assert(this.vendor === 'deepgram');
-    if (asrTimeout < 1000) {
-      this.notifyError({
-        msg: 'ASR error',
-        details:`asrTimeout ${asrTimeout} is too short for deepgram; setting it to 1000ms`
-      });
-      asrTimeout = 1000;
-    }
-    else if (asrTimeout > 5000) {
-      this.notifyError({
-        msg: 'ASR error',
-        details:`asrTimeout ${asrTimeout} is too long for deepgram; setting it to 5000ms`
-      });
-      asrTimeout = 5000;
-    }
    this.logger.debug(`_doContinuousAsrWithDeepgram - setting utterance_end_ms to ${asrTimeout}`);
    const dgOptions = this.data.recognizer.deepgramOptions = this.data.recognizer.deepgramOptions || {};
    dgOptions.utteranceEndMs = dgOptions.utteranceEndMs || asrTimeout;
@@ -333,8 +257,8 @@ class SttTask extends Task {
      message: 'STT failure reported by vendor',
      detail: evt.error,
      vendor: this.vendor,
-      target_sid: cs.callSid
    }).catch((err) => this.logger.info({err}, `Error generating alert for ${this.vendor} connection failure`));
+    this.notifyError({msg: 'ASR error', details:`Failed connecting to speech vendor ${this.vendor}: ${evt.error}`});
  }

  _onVendorConnectFailure(cs, _ep, evt) {
@@ -346,8 +270,8 @@ class SttTask extends Task {
      alert_type: AlertType.STT_FAILURE,
      message: `Failed connecting to ${this.vendor} speech recognizer: ${reason}`,
      vendor: this.vendor,
-      target_sid: cs.callSid
    }).catch((err) => this.logger.info({err}, `Error generating alert for ${this.vendor} connection failure`));
+    this.notifyError({msg: 'ASR error', details:`Failed connecting to speech vendor ${this.vendor}: ${reason}`});
  }
 }

--- a/lib/tasks/task.js
+++ b/lib/tasks/task.js
@@ -45,10 +45,6 @@ class Task extends Emitter {
    return this.name;
  }

-  set disableTracing(val) {
-    this._disableTracing = val;
-  }
-
  toJSON() {
    return this.data;
  }
@@ -164,7 +160,6 @@ class Task extends Emitter {
      const httpHeaders = b3 && {b3};
      span.setAttributes({'http.body': JSON.stringify(params)});
      try {
-        if (this.id) params.verb_id = this.id;
        const json = await this.cs.requestor.request(type, this.actionHook, params, httpHeaders);
        span.setAttributes({'http.statusCode': 200});
        const isWsConnection = this.cs.requestor instanceof WsRequestor;
@@ -177,20 +172,13 @@ class Task extends Emitter {
           * first new set of verbs arrive after sending a transcript
           * */
          this.emit('VerbHookSpanWaitForEnd', {span});
-
-          // If actionHook delay action is configured, and ws application have not responded yet any verb for actionHook
-          // We have to transfer the task to call-session to await on next ws command verbs, and also run action Hook
-          // delay actions
-          //if (this.hookDelayActionOpts) {
-          //  this.emit('ActionHookDelayActionOptions', this.hookDelayActionOpts);
-          //}
        }
        if (expectResponse && json && Array.isArray(json)) {
          const makeTask = require('./make_task');
          const tasks = normalizeJambones(this.logger, json).map((tdata) => makeTask(this.logger, tdata));
          if (tasks && tasks.length > 0) {
+            this.logger.info({tasks: tasks}, `${this.name} replacing application with ${tasks.length} tasks`);
            this.callSession.replaceApplication(tasks);
-            return true;
          }
        }
      } catch (err) {
@@ -198,7 +186,6 @@ class Task extends Emitter {
        span.end();
        throw err;
      }
-      return false;
    }
  }

@@ -278,7 +265,6 @@ class Task extends Emitter {
    delete obj.requestor;
    delete obj.notifier;
    obj.tasks =  cs.getRemainingTaskData();
-    obj.callInfo = cs.callInfo.toJSON();
    if (opts && obj.tasks.length > 0) {
      const key = Object.keys(obj.tasks[0])[0];
      Object.assign(obj.tasks[0][key], {_: opts});
--- a/lib/tasks/transcribe.js
+++ b/lib/tasks/transcribe.js
@@ -12,13 +12,10 @@ const {
  NvidiaTranscriptionEvents,
  JambonzTranscriptionEvents,
  TranscribeStatus,
-  AssemblyAiTranscriptionEvents,
-  VerbioTranscriptionEvents,
-  SpeechmaticsTranscriptionEvents
+  AssemblyAiTranscriptionEvents
 } = require('../utils/constants.json');
 const { normalizeJambones } = require('@jambonz/verb-specifications');
 const SttTask = require('./stt-task');
-const { SpeechCredentialError } = require('../utils/error');

 const STT_LISTEN_SPAN_NAME = 'stt-listen';

@@ -34,25 +31,6 @@ class TaskTranscribe extends SttTask {
      this.separateRecognitionPerChannel = this.data.recognizer.separateRecognitionPerChannel;
    }

-    /* for nested transcribe in dial, unless the app explicitly says so we want to transcribe both legs */
-    if (this.parentTask?.name === TaskName.Dial) {
-      if (this.data.channel === 1 || this.data.channel === 2) {
-        /* transcribe only the channel specified */
-        this.separateRecognitionPerChannel = false;
-        this.channel = this.data.channel;
-        logger.debug(`TaskTranscribe: transcribing only channel ${this.channel} in the Dial verb`);
-      }
-      else if (this.separateRecognitionPerChannel !== false) {
-        this.separateRecognitionPerChannel = true;
-      }
-      else {
-        this.channel = 1;
-      }
-    }
-    else {
-      this.channel = 1;
-    }
-
    this.childSpan = [null, null];

    // Continuous asr timeout
@@ -61,35 +39,13 @@ class TaskTranscribe extends SttTask {
      this.isContinuousAsr = true;
    }
    /* buffer speech for continuous asr */
-    this._bufferedTranscripts = [ [], [] ];  // for channel 1 and 2
+    this._bufferedTranscripts = [];
    this.bugname_prefix = 'transcribe_';
-    this.paused = false;
  }

  get name() { return TaskName.Transcribe; }

-  get transcribing1() {
-    return this.channel === 1 || this.separateRecognitionPerChannel;
-  }
-
-  get transcribing2() {
-    return this.channel === 2 || this.separateRecognitionPerChannel && this.ep2;
-  }
-
-  async exec(cs, obj) {
-    try {
-      await this.handling(cs, obj);
-    } catch (error) {
-      if (error instanceof SpeechCredentialError) {
-        this.logger.info('Transcribe failed due to SpeechCredentialError, finished!');
-        this.notifyTaskDone();
-        return;
-      }
-      throw error;
-    }
-  }
-
-  async handling(cs, {ep, ep2}) {
+  async exec(cs, {ep, ep2}) {
    await super.exec(cs, {ep, ep2});

    if (this.data.recognizer.vendor === 'nuance') {
@@ -111,30 +67,25 @@ class TaskTranscribe extends SttTask {
    }

    try {
-      if (this.transcribing1) {
-        await this._startTranscribing(cs, ep, 1);
-      }
-      if (this.transcribing2) {
+      await this._startTranscribing(cs, ep, 1);
+      if (this.separateRecognitionPerChannel && ep2) {
        await this._startTranscribing(cs, ep2, 2);
      }

      updateSpeechCredentialLastUsed(this.sttCredentials.speech_credential_sid)
        .catch(() => {/*already logged error */});
+
+      await this.awaitTaskDone();
    } catch (err) {
-      if (!(await this._startFallback(cs, ep, {error: err}))) {
-        this.logger.info(err, 'TaskTranscribe:exec - error');
-        this.parentTask && this.parentTask.emit('error', err);
-        this.removeCustomEventListeners();
-        return;
-      }
+      this.logger.info(err, 'TaskTranscribe:exec - error');
+      this.parentTask && this.parentTask.emit('error', err);
    }
-    await this.awaitTaskDone();
    this.removeCustomEventListeners();
  }

  async _stopTranscription() {
    let stopTranscription = false;
-    if (this.transcribing1 && this.ep?.connected) {
+    if (this.ep?.connected) {
      stopTranscription = true;
      this.ep.stopTranscription({
        vendor: this.vendor,
@@ -142,7 +93,7 @@ class TaskTranscribe extends SttTask {
      })
        .catch((err) => this.logger.info(err, 'Error TaskTranscribe:kill'));
    }
-    if (this.transcribing2 && this.ep2?.connected) {
+    if (this.separateRecognitionPerChannel && this.ep2 && this.ep2.connected) {
      stopTranscription = true;
      this.ep2.stopTranscription({vendor: this.vendor, bugname: this.bugname})
        .catch((err) => this.logger.info(err, 'Error TaskTranscribe:kill'));
@@ -166,13 +117,13 @@ class TaskTranscribe extends SttTask {
      this.logger.info(`TaskTranscribe:updateTranscribe status ${status}`);
      switch (status) {
        case TranscribeStatus.Pause:
-          this.paused = true;
          await this._stopTranscription();
          break;
        case TranscribeStatus.Resume:
-          this.paused = false;
-          if (this.transcribing1) await this._startTranscribing(this.cs, this.ep, 1);
-          if (this.transcribing2) await this._startTranscribing(this.cs, this.ep2, 2);
+          await this._startTranscribing(this.cs, this.ep, 1);
+          if (this.separateRecognitionPerChannel && this.ep2) {
+            await this._startTranscribing(this.cs, this.ep2, 2);
+          }
          break;
      }
    }
@@ -213,8 +164,8 @@ class TaskTranscribe extends SttTask {
        this.bugname = `${this.bugname_prefix}azure_transcribe`;
        this.addCustomEventListener(ep, AzureTranscriptionEvents.Transcription,
          this._onTranscription.bind(this, cs, ep, channel));
-        //this.addCustomEventListener(ep, AzureTranscriptionEvents.NoSpeechDetected,
-        //  this._onNoAudio.bind(this, cs, ep, channel));
+        this.addCustomEventListener(ep, AzureTranscriptionEvents.NoSpeechDetected,
+          this._onNoAudio.bind(this, cs, ep, channel));
        break;
      case 'nuance':
        this.bugname = `${this.bugname_prefix}nuance_transcribe`;
@@ -231,7 +182,7 @@ class TaskTranscribe extends SttTask {
          this._onVendorConnectFailure.bind(this, cs, ep, channel));

        /* if app sets deepgramOptions.utteranceEndMs they essentially want continuous asr */
-        //if (opts.DEEPGRAM_SPEECH_UTTERANCE_END_MS) this.isContinuousAsr = true;
+        if (opts.DEEPGRAM_SPEECH_UTTERANCE_END_MS) this.isContinuousAsr = true;

        break;
      case 'soniox':
@@ -239,13 +190,6 @@ class TaskTranscribe extends SttTask {
        this.addCustomEventListener(ep, SonioxTranscriptionEvents.Transcription,
          this._onTranscription.bind(this, cs, ep, channel));
        break;
-
-      case 'verbio':
-        this.bugname = `${this.bugname_prefix}verbio_transcribe`;
-        this.addCustomEventListener(
-          ep, VerbioTranscriptionEvents.Transcription, this._onTranscription.bind(this, cs, ep));
-        break;
-
      case 'cobalt':
        this.bugname = `${this.bugname_prefix}cobalt_transcribe`;
        this.addCustomEventListener(ep, CobaltTranscriptionEvents.Transcription,
@@ -303,22 +247,6 @@ class TaskTranscribe extends SttTask {
          this._onVendorConnectFailure.bind(this, cs, ep, channel));
        break;

-      case 'speechmatics':
-        this.bugname = `${this.bugname_prefix}speechmatics_transcribe`;
-        this.addCustomEventListener(
-          ep, SpeechmaticsTranscriptionEvents.Transcription, this._onTranscription.bind(this, cs, ep));
-        this.addCustomEventListener(ep, SpeechmaticsTranscriptionEvents.Info,
-          this._onSpeechmaticsInfo.bind(this, cs, ep));
-        this.addCustomEventListener(ep, SpeechmaticsTranscriptionEvents.RecognitionStarted,
-          this._onSpeechmaticsRecognitionStarted.bind(this, cs, ep));
-        this.addCustomEventListener(ep, SpeechmaticsTranscriptionEvents.Connect,
-          this._onVendorConnect.bind(this, cs, ep));
-        this.addCustomEventListener(ep, SpeechmaticsTranscriptionEvents.ConnectFailure,
-          this._onVendorConnectFailure.bind(this, cs, ep));
-        this.addCustomEventListener(ep, SpeechmaticsTranscriptionEvents.Error,
-          this._onSpeechmaticsError.bind(this, cs, ep));
-        break;
-
      default:
        if (this.vendor.startsWith('custom:')) {
          this.bugname = `${this.bugname_prefix}${this.vendor}_transcribe`;
@@ -358,7 +286,7 @@ class TaskTranscribe extends SttTask {
      vendor: this.vendor,
      interim: this.interim ? true : false,
      locale: this.language,
-      channels: 1,
+      channels: /*this.separateRecognitionPerChannel ? 2 : */ 1,
      bugname: this.bugname,
      hostport: this.hostport
    });
@@ -367,32 +295,20 @@ class TaskTranscribe extends SttTask {
  async _onTranscription(cs, ep, channel, evt, fsEvent) {
    // make sure this is not a transcript from answering machine detection
    const bugname = fsEvent.getHeader('media-bugname');
-    const finished = fsEvent.getHeader('transcription-session-finished');
-    const bufferedTranscripts = this._bufferedTranscripts[channel - 1];
    if (bugname && this.bugname !== bugname) return;
-    if (this.paused) {
-      this.logger.debug({evt}, 'TaskTranscribe:_onTranscription - paused, ignoring transcript');
-    }

    if (this.vendor === 'ibm' && evt?.state === 'listening') return;

    if (this.vendor === 'deepgram' && evt.type === 'UtteranceEnd') {
      /* we will only get this when we have set utterance_end_ms */
-
-      /* DH: send a speech event when we get UtteranceEnd if they want interim events */
-      if (this.interim) {
-        this.logger.debug('Gather:_onTranscription - got UtteranceEnd event from deepgram, sending speech event');
-        this._resolve(channel, evt);
-      }
-      if (bufferedTranscripts.length === 0) {
+      if (this._bufferedTranscripts.length === 0) {
        this.logger.debug('Gather:_onTranscription - got UtteranceEnd event from deepgram but no buffered transcripts');
      }
      else {
        this.logger.debug('Gather:_onTranscription - got UtteranceEnd event from deepgram, return buffered transcript');
-        evt = this.consolidateTranscripts(bufferedTranscripts, channel, this.language, this.vendor);
-        evt.is_final = true;
-        this._bufferedTranscripts[channel - 1] = [];
-        this._resolve(channel, evt);
+        evt = this.consolidateTranscripts(this._bufferedTranscripts, 1, this.language);
+        this._bufferedTranscripts = [];
+        this._resolve('speech', evt);
      }
      return;
    }
@@ -406,123 +322,55 @@ class TaskTranscribe extends SttTask {
      return;
    }

-    let emptyTranscript = false;
-    if (evt.is_final) {
-      if (evt.alternatives.length === 0 || evt.alternatives[0].transcript === '' && !cs.callGone && !this.killed) {
-        emptyTranscript = true;
-        if (finished === 'true' &&
-          ['microsoft', 'deepgram'].includes(this.vendor) &&
-          bufferedTranscripts.length === 0) {
-          this.logger.debug({evt}, 'TaskGather:_onTranscription - got empty transcript from old gather, disregarding');
-          return;
-        }
-        else if (this.vendor !== 'deepgram') {
-          this.logger.info({evt}, 'TaskGather:_onTranscription - got empty transcript, continue listening');
-          return;
-        }
-        else if (this.isContinuousAsr) {
-          this.logger.info({evt},
-            'TaskGather:_onTranscription - got empty deepgram transcript during continous asr, continue listening');
-          return;
-        }
-        else if (this.vendor === 'deepgram' && bufferedTranscripts.length > 0) {
-          this.logger.info({evt},
-            'TaskGather:_onTranscription - got empty transcript from deepgram, return the buffered transcripts');
-        }
-      }
-      if (this.isContinuousAsr) {
-        /* append the transcript and start listening again for asrTimeout */
-        const t = evt.alternatives[0].transcript;
-        if (t) {
-          /* remove trailing punctuation */
-          if (/[,;:\.!\?]$/.test(t)) {
-            this.logger.debug('TaskGather:_onTranscription - removing trailing punctuation');
-            evt.alternatives[0].transcript = t.slice(0, -1);
-          }
-        }
-        this.logger.info({evt}, 'TaskGather:_onTranscription - got transcript during continous asr');
-        bufferedTranscripts.push(evt);
-        this._startAsrTimer(channel);
-
-        /* some STT engines will keep listening after a final response, so no need to restart */
-        if (!['soniox', 'aws', 'microsoft', 'deepgram', 'google']
-          .includes(this.vendor)) this._startTranscribing(cs, ep, channel);
+    if (evt.alternatives[0]?.transcript === '' && !cs.callGone && !this.killed) {
+      if (['microsoft', 'deepgram'].includes(this.vendor)) {
+        this.logger.info({evt}, 'TaskTranscribe:_onTranscription - got empty transcript, continue listening');
      }
      else {
-        if (this.vendor === 'soniox') {
-          /* compile transcripts into one */
-          this._sonioxTranscripts.push(evt.vendor.finalWords);
-          evt = this.compileSonioxTranscripts(this._sonioxTranscripts, 1, this.language);
-          this._sonioxTranscripts = [];
-        }
-        else if (this.vendor === 'deepgram') {
-          /* compile transcripts into one */
-          if (!emptyTranscript) bufferedTranscripts.push(evt);
+        this.logger.info({evt}, 'TaskTranscribe:_onTranscription - got empty transcript, listen again');
+        this._transcribe(ep);
+      }
+      return;
+    }

-          /* deepgram can send an empty and final transcript; only if we have any buffered should we resolve */
-          if (bufferedTranscripts.length === 0) return;
-          evt = this.consolidateTranscripts(bufferedTranscripts, channel, this.language);
-          this._bufferedTranscripts[channel - 1] = [];
-        }
-
-        /* here is where we return a final transcript */
-        this.logger.debug({evt}, 'TaskTranscribe:_onTranscription - sending final transcript');
-        this._resolve(channel, evt);
-
-        /* some STT engines will keep listening after a final response, so no need to restart */
-        if (!['soniox', 'aws', 'microsoft', 'deepgram', 'google'].includes(this.vendor) &&
-          !this.vendor.startsWith('custom:')) {
-          this.logger.debug('TaskTranscribe:_onTranscription - restarting transcribe');
-          this._startTranscribing(cs, ep, channel);
-        }
+    if (this.vendor === 'soniox') {
+      /* compile transcripts into one */
+      this._sonioxTranscripts.push(evt.vendor.finalWords);
+      if (evt.is_final) {
+        evt = this.compileSonioxTranscripts(this._sonioxTranscripts, 1, this.language);
+        this._sonioxTranscripts = [];
      }
    }
-    else {
-      /* interim transcript */

-      /* deepgram can send a non-final transcript but with words that are final, so we need to buffer */
-      if (this.vendor === 'deepgram') {
-        const originalEvent = evt.vendor.evt;
-        if (originalEvent.is_final && evt.alternatives[0].transcript !== '') {
-          this.logger.debug({evt}, 'Gather:_onTranscription - buffering a completed (partial) deepgram transcript');
-          bufferedTranscripts.push(evt);
-        }
-      }
-
-      if (this.interim) {
-        this.logger.debug({evt}, 'TaskTranscribe:_onTranscription - sending interim transcript');
-        this._resolve(channel, evt);
-      }
+    if (this.isContinuousAsr && evt.is_final) {
+      this._bufferedTranscripts.push(evt);
+      this._startAsrTimer(channel);
+    } else {
+      await this._resolve(channel, evt);
    }
  }

  async _resolve(channel, evt) {
-    if (evt.is_final) {
-      /* we've got a final transcript, so end the otel child span for this channel */
-      if (this.childSpan[channel - 1] && this.childSpan[channel - 1].span) {
-        this.childSpan[channel - 1].span.setAttributes({
-          channel,
-          'stt.label': this.label || 'None',
-          'stt.resolve': 'transcript',
-          'stt.result': JSON.stringify(evt)
-        });
-        this.childSpan[channel - 1].span.end();
-      }
+    /* we've got a transcript, so end the otel child span for this channel */
+    if (this.childSpan[channel - 1] && this.childSpan[channel - 1].span) {
+      this.childSpan[channel - 1].span.setAttributes({
+        channel,
+        'stt.resolve': 'transcript',
+        'stt.result': JSON.stringify(evt)
+      });
+      this.childSpan[channel - 1].span.end();
    }

    if (this.transcriptionHook) {
      const b3 = this.getTracingPropagation();
      const httpHeaders = b3 && {b3};
-      const payload = {
-        ...this.cs.callInfo,
-        ...httpHeaders,
-        ...(evt.alternatives && {speech: evt}),
-        ...(evt.type && {speechEvent: evt})
-      };
      try {
-        this.logger.debug({payload}, 'sending transcriptionHook');
-        const json = await this.cs.requestor.request('verb:hook', this.transcriptionHook, payload);
-        this.logger.info({json}, 'completed transcriptionHook');
+        const json = await this.cs.requestor.request('verb:hook', this.transcriptionHook, {
+          ...this.cs.callInfo,
+          ...httpHeaders,
+          speech: evt
+        });
+        this.logger.info({json}, 'sent transcriptionHook');
        if (json && Array.isArray(json) && !this.parentTask) {
          const makeTask = require('./make_task');
          const tasks = normalizeJambones(this.logger, json).map((tdata) => makeTask(this.logger, tdata));
@@ -543,7 +391,7 @@ class TaskTranscribe extends SttTask {
      this._clearTimer();
      this.notifyTaskDone();
    }
-    else if (evt.is_final) {
+    else {
      /* start another child span for this channel */
      const {span, ctx} = this.startChildSpan(`${STT_LISTEN_SPAN_NAME}:${channel}`);
      this.childSpan[channel - 1] = {span, ctx};
@@ -551,13 +399,11 @@ class TaskTranscribe extends SttTask {
  }

  _onNoAudio(cs, ep, channel) {
-    this.logger.debug(`TaskTranscribe:_onNoAudio on channel ${channel}`);
-    if (this.paused) return;
+    this.logger.debug(`TaskTranscribe:_onNoAudio restarting transcription on channel ${channel}`);
    if (this.childSpan[channel - 1] && this.childSpan[channel - 1].span) {
      this.childSpan[channel - 1].span.setAttributes({
        channel,
-        'stt.resolve': 'timeout',
-        'stt.label': this.label || 'None',
+        'stt.resolve': 'timeout'
      });
      this.childSpan[channel - 1].span.end();
    }
@@ -569,13 +415,11 @@ class TaskTranscribe extends SttTask {
  }

  _onMaxDurationExceeded(cs, ep, channel) {
-    this.logger.debug(`TaskTranscribe:_onMaxDurationExceeded on channel ${channel}`);
-    if (this.paused) return;
+    this.logger.debug(`TaskTranscribe:_onMaxDurationExceeded restarting transcription on channel ${channel}`);
    if (this.childSpan[channel - 1] && this.childSpan[channel - 1].span) {
      this.childSpan[channel - 1].span.setAttributes({
        channel,
-        'stt.resolve': 'max duration exceeded',
-        'stt.label': this.label || 'None',
+        'stt.resolve': 'max duration exceeded'
      });
      this.childSpan[channel - 1].span.end();
    }
@@ -594,8 +438,9 @@ class TaskTranscribe extends SttTask {
    }
  }

-  async _startFallback(cs, _ep, evt) {
-    if (this.canFallback) {
+  async _onJambonzError(cs, _ep, evt) {
+    this.logger.info({evt}, 'TaskTranscribe:_onJambonzError');
+    if (this.isHandledByPrimaryProvider && this.fallbackVendor) {
      _ep.stopTranscription({
        vendor: this.vendor,
        bugname: this.bugname
@@ -603,84 +448,46 @@ class TaskTranscribe extends SttTask {
        .catch((err) => this.logger.error({err}, `Error stopping transcription for primary vendor ${this.vendor}`));
      const {updateSpeechCredentialLastUsed} = require('../utils/db-utils')(this.logger, cs.srf);
      try {
-        this.notifyError({ msg: 'ASR error',
-          details:`STT Vendor ${this.vendor} error: ${evt.error || evt.reason}`, failover: 'in progress'});
-        await this._initFallback();
+        await this._fallback();
        let channel = 1;
        if (this.ep !== _ep) {
          channel = 2;
        }
-        this[`_speechHandlersSet_${channel}`] = false;
        this._startTranscribing(cs, _ep, channel);
        updateSpeechCredentialLastUsed(this.sttCredentials.speech_credential_sid);
-        return true;
+        return;
      } catch (error) {
-        this.notifyError({ msg: 'ASR error',
-          details:`STT Vendor ${this.vendor} error: ${evt.error || evt.reason}`, failover: 'not available'});
        this.logger.info({error}, `There is error while falling back to ${this.fallbackVendor}`);
      }
    } else {
-      this.logger.debug('transcribe:_startFallback no condition for falling back');
-      this.notifyError({ msg: 'ASR error',
-        details:`STT Vendor ${this.vendor} error: ${evt.error || evt.reason}`, failover: 'not available'});
-    }
-    return false;
-  }
+      const {writeAlerts, AlertType} = cs.srf.locals;

-  async _onJambonzError(cs, _ep, evt) {
-    if (this.vendor === 'google' && evt.error_code === 0) {
-      this.logger.info({evt}, 'TaskTranscribe:_onJambonzError - ignoring google error code 0');
-      return;
-    }
-    this.logger.info({evt}, 'TaskTranscribe:_onJambonzError');
-    if (this.paused) return;
-    const {writeAlerts, AlertType} = cs.srf.locals;
-
-    if (this.vendor === 'nuance') {
-      const {code, error} = evt;
-      if (code === 404 && error === 'No speech') return this._resolve('timeout');
-      if (code === 413 && error === 'Too much speech') return this._resolve('timeout');
-    }
-    this.logger.info({evt}, 'TaskTranscribe:_onJambonzError');
-    writeAlerts({
-      account_sid: cs.accountSid,
-      alert_type: AlertType.STT_FAILURE,
-      message: `Custom speech vendor ${this.vendor} error: ${evt.error}`,
-      vendor: this.vendor,
-      target_sid: cs.callSid
-    }).catch((err) => this.logger.info({err}, 'Error generating alert for jambonz custom connection failure'));
-    if (!(await this._startFallback(cs, _ep, evt))) {
-      this.notifyTaskDone();
+      if (this.vendor === 'nuance') {
+        const {code, error} = evt;
+        if (code === 404 && error === 'No speech') return this._resolve('timeout');
+        if (code === 413 && error === 'Too much speech') return this._resolve('timeout');
+      }
+      this.logger.info({evt}, 'TaskTranscribe:_onJambonzError');
+      writeAlerts({
+        account_sid: cs.accountSid,
+        alert_type: AlertType.STT_FAILURE,
+        message: `Custom speech vendor ${this.vendor} error: ${evt.error}`,
+        vendor: this.vendor,
+      }).catch((err) => this.logger.info({err}, 'Error generating alert for jambonz custom connection failure'));
+      this.notifyError({msg: 'ASR error', details:`Custom speech vendor ${this.vendor} error: ${evt.error}`});
    }
  }

-  async _onVendorConnectFailure(cs, _ep, channel, evt) {
+  _onVendorConnectFailure(cs, _ep, channel, evt) {
    super._onVendorConnectFailure(cs, _ep, evt);
    if (this.childSpan[channel - 1] && this.childSpan[channel - 1].span) {
      this.childSpan[channel - 1].span.setAttributes({
        channel,
-        'stt.resolve': 'connection failure',
-        'stt.label': this.label || 'None',
+        'stt.resolve': 'connection failure'
      });
      this.childSpan[channel - 1].span.end();
    }
-    if (!(await this._startFallback(cs, _ep, evt))) {
-      this.notifyTaskDone();
-    }
-  }
-
-  async _onSpeechmaticsRecognitionStarted(_cs, _ep, evt) {
-    this.logger.debug({evt}, 'TaskGather:_onSpeechmaticsRecognitionStarted');
-  }
-
-  async _onSpeechmaticsInfo(_cs, _ep, evt) {
-    this.logger.debug({evt}, 'TaskGather:_onSpeechmaticsInfo');
-  }
-
-  async _onSpeechmaticsErrror(cs, _ep, evt) {
-    // eslint-disable-next-line no-unused-vars
-    const {message, ...e} = evt;
-    this._onVendorError(cs, _ep, {error: JSON.stringify(e)});
+    this.notifyTaskDone();
  }

  _startAsrTimer(channel) {
@@ -689,9 +496,8 @@ class TaskTranscribe extends SttTask {
    this._clearAsrTimer(channel);
    this._asrTimer = setTimeout(() => {
      this.logger.debug(`TaskTranscribe:_startAsrTimer - asr timer went off for channel: ${channel}`);
-      const evt = this.consolidateTranscripts(
-        this._bufferedTranscripts[channel - 1], channel, this.language, this.vendor);
-      this._bufferedTranscripts[channel - 1] = [];
+      const evt = this.consolidateTranscripts(this._bufferedTranscripts, channel, this.language);
+      this._bufferedTranscripts = [];
      this._resolve(channel, evt);
    }, this.asrTimeout);
    this.logger.debug(`TaskTranscribe:_startAsrTimer: set for ${this.asrTimeout}ms for channel ${channel}`);
--- a/lib/tasks/tts-task.js
+++ b/lib/tasks/tts-task.js
@@ -1,225 +0,0 @@
-const Task = require('./task');
-const { TaskPreconditions } = require('../utils/constants');
-const { SpeechCredentialError } = require('../utils/error');
-
-class TtsTask extends Task {
-
-  constructor(logger, data, parentTask) {
-    super(logger, data);
-    this.parentTask = parentTask;
-
-    this.preconditions = TaskPreconditions.Endpoint;
-
-    this.earlyMedia = this.data.earlyMedia === true || (parentTask && parentTask.earlyMedia);
-    /**
-     * Task use taskInlcudeSynthesizer to identify
-     * if taskInlcudeSynthesizer === true, use label from verb.synthesizer, even it's empty
-     * if taskInlcudeSynthesizer === false, use label from application.synthesizer
-     */
-    this.taskInlcudeSynthesizer = !!this.data.synthesizer;
-    this.synthesizer = this.data.synthesizer || {};
-    this.disableTtsCache = this.data.disableTtsCache;
-    this.options = this.synthesizer.options || {};
-  }
-
-  async exec(cs) {
-    super.exec(cs);
-    if (cs.synthesizer) {
-      this.options = {...cs.synthesizer.options, ...this.options};
-      this.data.synthesizer = this.data.synthesizer || {};
-      for (const k in cs.synthesizer) {
-        const newValue = this.data.synthesizer && this.data.synthesizer[k] !== undefined ?
-          this.data.synthesizer[k] :
-          cs.synthesizer[k];
-
-        if (Array.isArray(newValue)) {
-          this.data.synthesizer[k] = [...(this.data.synthesizer[k] || []), ...cs.synthesizer[k]];
-        } else if (typeof newValue === 'object' && newValue !== null) {
-          this.data.synthesizer[k] = { ...(this.data.synthesizer[k] || {}), ...cs.synthesizer[k] };
-        } else {
-          this.data.synthesizer[k] = newValue;
-        }
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
-  async _synthesizeWithSpecificVendor(cs, ep, {vendor, language, voice, label, preCache = false}) {
-    const {srf, accountSid:account_sid} = cs;
-    const {updateSpeechCredentialLastUsed} = require('../utils/db-utils')(this.logger, srf);
-    const {writeAlerts, AlertType, stats} = srf.locals;
-    const {synthAudio} = srf.locals.dbHelpers;
-    const engine = this.synthesizer.engine || cs.synthesizer?.engine || 'neural';
-    const salt = cs.callSid;
-
-    let credentials = cs.getSpeechCredentials(vendor, 'tts', label);
-    if (!credentials) {
-      throw new SpeechCredentialError(
-        `No text-to-speech service credentials for ${vendor} with labels: ${label} have been configured`);
-    }
-    /* parse Nuance voices into name and model */
-    let model;
-    if (vendor === 'nuance' && voice) {
-      const arr = /([A-Za-z-]*)\s+-\s+(enhanced|standard)/.exec(voice);
-      if (arr) {
-        voice = arr[1];
-        model = arr[2];
-      }
-    } else if (vendor === 'deepgram') {
-      model = voice;
-    }
-
-    /* allow for microsoft custom region voice and api_key to be specified as an override */
-    if (vendor === 'microsoft' && this.options.deploymentId) {
-      credentials = credentials || {};
-      credentials.use_custom_tts = true;
-      credentials.custom_tts_endpoint = this.options.deploymentId;
-      credentials.api_key = this.options.apiKey || credentials.apiKey;
-      credentials.region = this.options.region || credentials.region;
-      voice = this.options.voice || voice;
-    } else if (vendor === 'elevenlabs') {
-      credentials = credentials || {};
-      credentials.model_id = this.options.model_id || credentials.model_id;
-      credentials.voice_settings = this.options.voice_settings || {};
-      credentials.optimize_streaming_latency = this.options.optimize_streaming_latency
-      || credentials.optimize_streaming_latency;
-      voice = this.options.voice_id || voice;
-    } else if (vendor === 'rimelabs') {
-      credentials = credentials || {};
-      credentials.model_id = this.options.model_id || credentials.model_id;
-    } else if (vendor === 'whisper') {
-      credentials = credentials || {};
-      credentials.model_id = this.options.model_id || credentials.model_id;
-    } else if (vendor === 'verbio') {
-      credentials = credentials || {};
-      credentials.engine_version = this.options.engine_version || credentials.engine_version;
-    } else if (vendor === 'playht') {
-      credentials = credentials || {};
-      credentials.voice_engine = this.options.voice_engine || credentials.voice_engine;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * note on cache_speech_handles.  This was found to be risky.
-     * It can cause a crash in the following sequence on a single call:
-     * 1. Stream tts on vendor A with cache_speech_handles=1, then
-     * 2. Stream tts on vendor B with cache_speech_handles=1
-     *
-     * we previously tried to track when vendors were switched and manage the flag accordingly,
-     * but it difficult to track all the scenarios and the benefit (slightly faster start to tts playout)
-     * is probably minimal.  DH.
-     */
-    ep.set({
-      tts_engine: vendor.startsWith('custom:') ? 'custom' : vendor,
-      tts_voice: voice,
-      //cache_speech_handles: !cs.currentTtsVendor || cs.currentTtsVendor === vendor ? 1 : 0,
-      cache_speech_handles: 0,
-    }).catch((err) => this.logger.info({err}, 'Error setting tts_engine on endpoint'));
-    // set the current vendor on the call session
-    // If vendor is changed from the previous one, then reset the cache_speech_handles flag
-    //cs.currentTtsVendor = vendor;
-
-    if (!preCache && !this._disableTracing) this.logger.info({vendor, language, voice, model}, 'TaskSay:exec');
-    try {
-      if (!credentials) {
-        writeAlerts({
-          account_sid,
-          alert_type: AlertType.TTS_NOT_PROVISIONED,
-          vendor,
-          target_sid: cs.callSid
-        }).catch((err) => this.logger.info({err}, 'Error generating alert for no tts'));
-        throw new SpeechCredentialError('no provisioned speech credentials for TTS');
-      }
-      // synthesize all of the text elements
-      let lastUpdated = false;
-
-      /* produce an audio segment from the provided text */
-      const generateAudio = async(text) => {
-        if (this.killed) return;
-        if (text.startsWith('silence_stream://')) return text;
-
-        /* otel: trace time for tts */
-        if (!preCache && !this._disableTracing)  {
-          const {span} = this.startChildSpan('tts-generation', {
-            'tts.vendor': vendor,
-            'tts.language': language,
-            'tts.voice': voice,
-            'tts.label': label || 'None',
-          });
-          this.otelSpan = span;
-        }
-        try {
-          const {filePath, servedFromCache, rtt} = await synthAudio(stats, {
-            account_sid,
-            text,
-            vendor,
-            language,
-            voice,
-            engine,
-            model,
-            salt,
-            credentials,
-            options: this.options,
-            disableTtsCache : this.disableTtsCache,
-            renderForCaching: preCache
-          });
-          if (!filePath.startsWith('say:')) {
-            this.logger.debug(`Say: file ${filePath}, served from cache ${servedFromCache}`);
-            if (filePath) cs.trackTmpFile(filePath);
-            if (this.otelSpan) {
-              this.otelSpan.setAttributes({'tts.cached': servedFromCache});
-              this.otelSpan.end();
-              this.otelSpan = null;
-            }
-            if (!servedFromCache && !lastUpdated) {
-              lastUpdated = true;
-              updateSpeechCredentialLastUsed(credentials.speech_credential_sid).catch(() => {/* logged error */});
-            }
-            if (!servedFromCache && rtt && !preCache  && !this._disableTracing) {
-              this.notifyStatus({
-                event: 'synthesized-audio',
-                vendor,
-                language,
-                characters: text.length,
-                elapsedTime: rtt
-              });
-            }
-          }
-          else {
-            this.logger.debug('Say: a streaming tts api will be used');
-            const modifiedPath = filePath.replace('say:{', `say:{session-uuid=${ep.uuid},`);
-            return modifiedPath;
-          }
-          return filePath;
-        } catch (err) {
-          this.logger.info({err}, 'Error synthesizing tts');
-          if (this.otelSpan) this.otelSpan.end();
-          writeAlerts({
-            account_sid: cs.accountSid,
-            alert_type: AlertType.TTS_FAILURE,
-            vendor,
-            detail: err.message,
-            target_sid: cs.callSid
-          }).catch((err) => this.logger.info({err}, 'Error generating alert for tts failure'));
-          throw err;
-        }
-      };
-
-      const arr = this.text.map((t) => (this._validateURL(t) ? t : generateAudio(t)));
-      return (await Promise.all(arr)).filter((fp) => fp && fp.length);
-    } catch (err) {
-      this.logger.info(err, 'TaskSay:exec error');
-      throw err;
-    }
-
-  }
-
-  _validateURL(urlString) {
-    try {
-      new URL(urlString);
-      return true;
-    } catch (e) {
-      return false;
-    }
-  }
-}
-
-module.exports = TtsTask;
--- a/lib/utils/action-hook-delay.js
+++ b/lib/utils/action-hook-delay.js
@@ -1,182 +0,0 @@
-const makeTask = require('../tasks/make_task');
-const Emitter = require('events');
-const { normalizeJambones } = require('@jambonz/verb-specifications');
-const {TaskName} = require('../utils/constants');
-
-/**
- * ActionHookDelayProcessor
- * @extends Emitter
- *
- * @param {Object} logger - logger instance
- * @param {Object} opts - options
- * @param {Object} cs - call session
- * @param {Object} ep - endpoint
- *
- * @emits {Event} 'giveup' - when associated giveup timer expires
- *
- * Ref:https://www.jambonz.org/docs/supporting-articles/handling-action-hook-delays/
- */
-class ActionHookDelayProcessor extends Emitter {
-  constructor(logger, opts, cs) {
-    super();
-    this.logger = logger;
-    this.cs = cs;
-    this._active = false;
-
-    const enabled = this.init(opts);
-    if (enabled && this.noResponseTimeout &&
-          (!this.actions || !Array.isArray(this.actions) || this.actions.length === 0)) {
-      throw new Error('ActionHookDelayProcessor: no actions specified');
-    }
-    else if (enabled && this.actions &&
-          this.actions.some((a) => !a.verb || ![TaskName.Say, TaskName.Play].includes(a.verb))) {
-      throw new Error(`ActionHookDelayProcessor: invalid actions specified: ${JSON.stringify(this.actions)}`);
-    }
-  }
-
-  get properties() {
-    return {
-      actions: this.actions,
-      retries: this.retries,
-      noResponseTimeout: this.noResponseTimeout,
-      noResponseGiveUpTimeout: this.noResponseGiveUpTimeout
-    };
-  }
-
-  get ep() {
-    return this.cs.ep;
-  }
-
-  init(opts) {
-    this.logger.debug({opts}, 'ActionHookDelayProcessor#init');
-
-    this.actions = opts.actions;
-    this.retries = opts.retries || 0;
-    this.noResponseTimeout = opts.noResponseTimeout;
-    this.noResponseGiveUpTimeout = opts.noResponseGiveUpTimeout;
-    this.giveUpActions = opts.giveUpActions;
-
-    // return false if these options actually disable the ahdp
-    return ('enable' in opts && opts.enable === true) ||
-      ('enabled' in opts && opts.enabled === true) ||
-      (!('enable' in opts) && !('enabled' in opts));
-  }
-
-  start() {
-    this.logger.debug('ActionHookDelayProcessor#start');
-    if (this._active) {
-      this.logger.debug('ActionHookDelayProcessor#start: already started due to prior gather which is continuing');
-      return;
-    }
-    this._active = true;
-    this._retryCount = 0;
-    if (this.noResponseTimeout > 0) {
-      const timeoutMs =  this.noResponseTimeout * 1000;
-      this._noResponseTimer = setTimeout(this._onNoResponseTimer.bind(this), timeoutMs);
-    } else {
-      this.logger.debug(
-        'ActionHookDelayProcessor#start: noResponseTimeout is 0 or undefined hence not calling _onNoResponseTimer'
-      );
-    }
-
-    if (this.noResponseGiveUpTimeout > 0) {
-      const timeoutMs = this.noResponseGiveUpTimeout * 1000;
-      this._noResponseGiveUpTimer = setTimeout(this._onNoResponseGiveUpTimer.bind(this), timeoutMs);
-    }
-  }
-
-  async stop() {
-    this._active = false;
-
-    if (this._noResponseTimer) {
-      clearTimeout(this._noResponseTimer);
-      this._noResponseTimer = null;
-    }
-    if (this._noResponseGiveUpTimer) {
-      clearTimeout(this._noResponseGiveUpTimer);
-      this._noResponseGiveUpTimer = null;
-    }
-    if (this._taskInProgress) {
-      this.logger.debug(`ActionHookDelayProcessor#stop: stopping ${this._taskInProgress.name}`);
-
-      this._sayResolver = () => {
-        this.logger.debug('ActionHookDelayProcessor#stop: play/say is done, continue on..');
-        //this._taskInProgress.kill(this.cs);
-        this._taskInProgress = null;
-      };
-
-      /* we let Say finish, but interrupt Play */
-      if (TaskName.Play === this._taskInProgress.name) {
-        await this._taskInProgress.kill(this.cs);
-      }
-      return new Promise((resolve) => this._sayResolver = resolve);
-    }
-    this.logger.debug('ActionHookDelayProcessor#stop returning');
-  }
-
-  _onNoResponseTimer() {
-    this.logger.debug('ActionHookDelayProcessor#_onNoResponseTimer');
-    this._noResponseTimer = null;
-
-    /* get the next play or say action */
-    const verb = this.actions[this._retryCount % this.actions.length];
-
-    const t = normalizeJambones(this.logger, [verb]);
-    this.logger.debug({verb}, 'ActionHookDelayProcessor#_onNoResponseTimer: starting action');
-    try {
-      this._taskInProgress = makeTask(this.logger, t[0]);
-      this._taskInProgress.disableTracing = true;
-      this._taskInProgress.exec(this.cs, {ep: this.ep});
-    } catch (err) {
-      this.logger.info(err, 'ActionHookDelayProcessor#_onNoResponseTimer: error starting action');
-      this._taskInProgress = null;
-      return;
-    }
-
-    this.ep.once('playback-start', (evt) => {
-      this.logger.debug({evt}, 'got playback-start');
-      if (!this._active) {
-        this.logger.info({evt}, 'ActionHookDelayProcessor#_onNoResponseTimer: killing audio immediately');
-
-        /* note: in race condition we may have just hung up and cs.ep cleared */
-        this.ep?.api('uuid_break', this.ep?.uuid)
-          .catch((err) => this.logger.info(err,
-            'ActionHookDelayProcessor#_onNoResponseTimer Error killing audio'));
-      }
-    });
-
-    this.ep.once('playback-stop', (evt) => {
-      this._taskInProgress = null;
-      if (this._sayResolver) {
-        /* we were waiting for the play to finish before continuing to next task */
-        this.logger.debug({evt}, 'ActionHookDelayProcessor#_onNoResponseTimer got playback-stop');
-        this._sayResolver();
-        this._sayResolver = null;
-      }
-      else {
-        /* possibly start the no response timer again */
-        if (this._active && this.retries > 0 && this._retryCount < this.retries && this.noResponseTimeout > 0) {
-          this.logger.debug({evt}, 'ActionHookDelayProcessor#_onNoResponseTimer: playback-stop on play/say action');
-          const timeoutMs = this.noResponseTimeout * 1000;
-          this._noResponseTimer = setTimeout(this._onNoResponseTimer.bind(this), timeoutMs);
-        }
-      }
-    });
-
-    this._retryCount++;
-  }
-
-  _onNoResponseGiveUpTimer() {
-    this._active = false;
-    if (!this.giveUpActions) {
-      this.logger.info('ActionHookDelayProcessor#_onNoResponseGiveUpTimer');
-      this.stop().catch((err) => {});
-      this.emit('giveup');
-    } else {
-      this.logger.info('ActionHookDelayProcessor#_onNoResponseGiveUpTimer - giveUpActions');
-      this.emit('giveupWithTasks', this.giveUpActions);
-    }
-  }
-}
-
-module.exports = ActionHookDelayProcessor;
--- a/lib/utils/amd-utils.js
+++ b/lib/utils/amd-utils.js
@@ -210,8 +210,7 @@ module.exports = (logger) => {
        account_sid: cs.accountSid,
        alert_type: AlertType.STT_FAILURE,
        vendor: vendor,
-        detail: err.message,
-        target_sid: cs.callSid
+        detail: err.message
      });
    }).catch((err) => logger.info({err}, 'Error generating alert for tts failure'));

@@ -246,10 +245,7 @@ module.exports = (logger) => {
    const amd = ep.amd = new Amd(logger, cs, opts);
    const {vendor, language} = amd;
    let sttCredentials = amd.sttCredentials;
-    // hints from configuration might be too long for specific language and vendor that make transcribe freeswitch
-    // modules cannot connect to the vendor. hints is used in next step to validate if the transcription
-    // matchs voice mail hints.
-    const hints = [];
+    const hints = voicemailHints[language] || [];

    if (vendor === 'nuance' && sttCredentials.client_id) {
      /* get nuance access token */
--- a/lib/utils/background-task-manager.js
+++ b/lib/utils/background-task-manager.js
@@ -26,25 +26,25 @@ class BackgroundTaskManager extends Emitter {
    return this.tasks.size;
  }

-  async newTask(type, opts, sticky = false) {
-    this.logger.info({opts}, `initiating Background task ${type}`);
+  async newTask(type, taskOpts) {
+    this.logger.info({taskOpts}, `initiating Background task ${type}`);
    if (this.tasks.has(type)) {
-      this.logger.info(`Background task ${type} is running, skipped`);
+      this.logger.info(`Background task ${type} is running, skiped`);
      return;
    }
    let task;
    switch (type) {
      case 'listen':
-        task = await this._initListen(opts);
+        task = await this._initListen(taskOpts);
        break;
      case 'bargeIn':
-        task = await this._initBargeIn(opts);
+        task = await this._initBargeIn(taskOpts);
        break;
      case 'record':
        task = await this._initRecord();
        break;
      case 'transcribe':
-        task = await this._initTranscribe(opts);
+        task = await this._initTranscribe(taskOpts);
        break;
      default:
        break;
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ class BackgroundTaskManager extends Emitter {
    if (task) {
      this.tasks.set(type, task);
    }
-    if (task && sticky) task.sticky = true;
    return task;
  }

@@ -65,16 +64,19 @@ class BackgroundTaskManager extends Emitter {
      task.kill();
      // Remove task from managed List
      this.tasks.delete(type);
+    } else {
+      this.logger.info(`stopping background task, ${type} is not running, skipped`);
    }
  }

  stopAll() {
-    this.logger.debug('BackgroundTaskManager:stopAll');
+    this.logger.info('BackgroundTaskManager:stopAll');
    for (const key of this.tasks.keys()) {
      this.stop(key);
    }
  }

+  // Initiate Task
  // Initiate Listen
  async _initListen(opts, bugname = 'jambonz-background-listen', ignoreCustomerData = false, type = 'listen') {
    let task;
@@ -117,8 +119,7 @@ class BackgroundTaskManager extends Emitter {
          this._taskCompleted('bargeIn', task);
          if (task.sticky && !this.cs.callGone && !this.cs._stopping) {
            this.logger.info('BackgroundTaskManager:_initBargeIn: restarting background bargeIn');
-            this._bargeInHandled = false;
-            this.newTask('bargeIn', opts, true);
+            this.newTask('bargeIn', opts);
          }
          return;
        })
@@ -133,7 +134,8 @@ class BackgroundTaskManager extends Emitter {
  async _initRecord() {
    if (this.cs.accountInfo.account.record_all_calls || this.cs.application.record_all_calls) {
      if (!JAMBONZ_RECORD_WS_BASE_URL || !this.cs.accountInfo.account.bucket_credential) {
-        this.logger.error('_initRecord: invalid cfg - missing JAMBONZ_RECORD_WS_BASE_URL or bucket config');
+        this.logger.error(`_initRecord: invalid configuration,
+ missing JAMBONZ_RECORD_WS_BASE_URL or bucket configuration`);
        return undefined;
      }
      const listenOpts = {
@@ -174,7 +176,7 @@ class BackgroundTaskManager extends Emitter {
  }

  _taskCompleted(type, task) {
-    this.logger.debug({type, task}, `BackgroundTaskManager:_taskCompleted: task completed, sticky: ${task.sticky}`);
+    this.logger.info({type, task}, 'BackgroundTaskManager:_taskCompleted: task completed');
    task.removeAllListeners();
    task.span.end();
    this.tasks.delete(type);
@@ -187,10 +189,7 @@ class BackgroundTaskManager extends Emitter {
  }

  _bargeInTaskCompleted(evt) {
-    if (this._bargeInHandled) return;
-    this._bargeInHandled = true;
-    this.logger.debug({evt},
-      'BackgroundTaskManager:_bargeInTaskCompleted on event from background bargeIn, emitting bargein-done event');
+    this.logger.info({evt}, 'BackgroundTaskManager:_bargeInTaskCompleted on event from background bargeIn');
    this.emit('bargeIn-done', evt);
  }
 }
--- a/lib/utils/constants.json
+++ b/lib/utils/constants.json
@@ -1,20 +1,18 @@
 {
  "TaskName": {
-    "Answer": "answer",
+    "Cognigy": "cognigy",
    "Conference": "conference",
    "Config": "config",
    "Dequeue": "dequeue",
    "Dial": "dial",
    "Dialogflow": "dialogflow",
    "Dtmf": "dtmf",
-    "Dub": "dub",
    "Enqueue": "enqueue",
    "Gather": "gather",
    "Hangup": "hangup",
    "Leave": "leave",
    "Lex": "lex",
    "Listen": "listen",
-    "Llm": "llm",
    "Message": "message",
    "Pause": "pause",
    "Play": "play",
@@ -31,8 +29,7 @@
    "Tag": "tag",
    "Transcribe": "transcribe"
  },
-  "AllowedSipRecVerbs": ["answer", "config", "gather", "transcribe", "listen", "tag"],
-  "AllowedConfirmSessionVerbs": ["config", "gather", "plays", "say", "tag"],
+  "AllowedSipRecVerbs": ["config", "gather", "transcribe", "listen", "tag"],
  "CallStatus": {
    "Trying": "trying",
    "Ringing": "ringing",
@@ -98,10 +95,6 @@
    "Transcription": "soniox_transcribe::transcription",
    "Error": "soniox_transcribe::error"
  },
-  "VerbioTranscriptionEvents": {
-    "Transcription": "verbio_transcribe::transcription",
-    "Error": "verbio_transcribe::error"
-  },
  "CobaltTranscriptionEvents": {
    "Transcription": "cobalt_speech::transcription",
    "CompileContext": "cobalt_speech::compile_context_response",
@@ -127,14 +120,6 @@
    "NoSpeechDetected": "azure_transcribe::no_speech_detected",
    "VadDetected": "azure_transcribe::vad_detected"
  },
-  "SpeechmaticsTranscriptionEvents": {
-    "Transcription": "speechmatics_transcribe::transcription",
-    "Info": "speechmatics_transcribe::info",
-    "RecognitionStarted": "speechmatics_transcribe::recognition_started",
-    "ConnectFailure": "speechmatics_transcribe::connect_failed",
-    "Connect": "speechmatics_transcribe::connect",
-    "Error": "speechmatics_transcribe::error"
-  },
  "JambonzTranscriptionEvents": {
    "Transcription": "jambonz_transcribe::transcription",
    "ConnectFailure": "jambonz_transcribe::connect_failed",
@@ -147,9 +132,6 @@
    "ConnectFailure": "assemblyai_transcribe::connect_failed",
    "Connect": "assemblyai_transcribe::connect"
  },
-  "VadDetection": {
-    "Detection": "vad_detect:detection"
-  },
  "ListenEvents": {
    "Connect": "mod_audio_fork::connect",
    "ConnectFailure": "mod_audio_fork::connect_failed",
@@ -167,13 +149,6 @@
    "StandbyEnter": "standby-enter",
    "StandbyExit": "standby-exit"
  },
-  "LlmEvents_OpenAI": {
-    "Error": "error",
-    "Connect": "openai_s2s::connect",
-    "ConnectFailure": "openai_s2s::connect_failed",
-    "Disconnect": "openai_s2s::disconnect",
-    "ServerEvent": "openai_s2s::server_event"
-  },
  "QueueResults": {
    "Bridged": "bridged",
    "Error": "error",
@@ -194,14 +169,11 @@
    "session:new",
    "session:reconnect",
    "session:redirect",
-    "session:adulting",
    "call:status",
    "queue:status",
    "dial:confirm",
    "verb:hook",
    "verb:status",
-    "llm:event",
-    "llm:tool-call",
    "jambonz:error"
  ],
  "RecordState": {
--- a/lib/utils/db-utils.js
+++ b/lib/utils/db-utils.js
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ const speechMapper = (cred) => {
      const o = JSON.parse(decrypt(credential));
      obj.access_key_id = o.access_key_id;
      obj.secret_access_key = o.secret_access_key;
-      obj.role_arn = o.role_arn;
      obj.aws_region = o.aws_region;
    }
    else if ('microsoft' === obj.vendor) {
@@ -76,9 +75,6 @@ const speechMapper = (cred) => {
    else if ('deepgram' === obj.vendor) {
      const o = JSON.parse(decrypt(credential));
      obj.api_key = o.api_key;
-      obj.deepgram_stt_uri = o.deepgram_stt_uri;
-      obj.deepgram_tts_uri = o.deepgram_tts_uri;
-      obj.deepgram_stt_use_tls = o.deepgram_stt_use_tls;
    }
    else if ('soniox' === obj.vendor) {
      const o = JSON.parse(decrypt(credential));
@@ -91,47 +87,19 @@ const speechMapper = (cred) => {
    else if ('cobalt' === obj.vendor) {
      const o = JSON.parse(decrypt(credential));
      obj.cobalt_server_uri = o.cobalt_server_uri;
-    }
-    else if ('elevenlabs' === obj.vendor) {
+    } else if ('elevenlabs' === obj.vendor) {
      const o = JSON.parse(decrypt(credential));
      obj.api_key = o.api_key;
      obj.model_id = o.model_id;
      obj.options = o.options;
-    }
-    else if ('playht' === obj.vendor) {
+    } else if ('assemblyai' === obj.vendor) {
      const o = JSON.parse(decrypt(credential));
      obj.api_key = o.api_key;
-      obj.user_id = o.user_id;
-      obj.voice_engine = o.voice_engine;
-      obj.options = o.options;
-    }
-    else if ('rimelabs' === obj.vendor) {
+    } else if ('whisper' === obj.vendor) {
      const o = JSON.parse(decrypt(credential));
      obj.api_key = o.api_key;
      obj.model_id = o.model_id;
-      obj.options = o.options;
-    }
-    else if ('assemblyai' === obj.vendor) {
-      const o = JSON.parse(decrypt(credential));
-      obj.api_key = o.api_key;
-    }
-    else if ('whisper' === obj.vendor) {
-      const o = JSON.parse(decrypt(credential));
-      obj.api_key = o.api_key;
-      obj.model_id = o.model_id;
-    }
-    else if ('verbio' === obj.vendor) {
-      const o = JSON.parse(decrypt(credential));
-      obj.client_id = o.client_id;
-      obj.client_secret = o.client_secret;
-      obj.engine_version = o.engine_version;
-    }
-    else if ('speechmatics' === obj.vendor) {
-      const o = JSON.parse(decrypt(credential));
-      obj.api_key = o.api_key;
-      obj.speechmatics_stt_uri = o.speechmatics_stt_uri;
-    }
-    else if (obj.vendor.startsWith('custom:')) {
+    } else if (obj.vendor.startsWith('custom:')) {
      const o = JSON.parse(decrypt(credential));
      obj.auth_token = o.auth_token;
      obj.custom_stt_url = o.custom_stt_url;
--- a/lib/utils/error.js
+++ b/lib/utils/error.js
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-class SpeechCredentialError extends Error {
-  constructor(msg) {
-    super(msg);
-  }
-}
-
-module.exports = {
-  SpeechCredentialError
-};
--- a/lib/utils/install-srf-locals.js
+++ b/lib/utils/install-srf-locals.js
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 const Mrf = require('drachtio-fsmrf');
-const os = require('os');
+const ip = require('ip');
 const {
  JAMBONES_MYSQL_HOST,
  JAMBONES_MYSQL_USER,
@@ -12,25 +12,11 @@ const {
  JAMBONES_TIME_SERIES_HOST,
  JAMBONES_ESL_LISTEN_ADDRESS,
  PORT,
-  HTTP_IP,
  NODE_ENV,
 } = require('../config');
 const Registrar = require('@jambonz/mw-registrar');
 const assert = require('assert');

-function getLocalIp() {
-  const interfaces = os.networkInterfaces();
-  for (const interfaceName in interfaces) {
-    const interface = interfaces[interfaceName];
-    for (const iface of interface) {
-      if (iface.family === 'IPv4' && !iface.internal) {
-        return iface.address;
-      }
-    }
-  }
-  return '127.0.0.1'; // Fallback to localhost if no suitable interface found
-}
-
 function initMS(logger, wrapper, ms) {
  Object.assign(wrapper, {ms, active: true, connects: 1});
  logger.info(`connected to freeswitch at ${ms.address}`);
@@ -152,8 +138,7 @@ function installSrfLocals(srf, logger) {
    lookupAccountBySid,
    lookupAccountCapacitiesBySid,
    lookupSmppGateways,
-    lookupClientByAccountAndUsername,
-    lookupSystemInformation
+    lookupClientByAccountAndUsername
  } = require('@jambonz/db-helpers')({
    host: JAMBONES_MYSQL_HOST,
    user: JAMBONES_MYSQL_USER,
@@ -186,16 +171,13 @@ function installSrfLocals(srf, logger) {
    retrieveFromSortedSet,
    retrieveByPatternSortedSet,
    sortedSetLength,
-    sortedSetPositionByPattern,
+    sortedSetPositionByPattern
  } = require('@jambonz/realtimedb-helpers')({}, logger, tracer);
  const registrar = new Registrar(logger, client);
  const {
    synthAudio,
-    addFileToCache,
    getNuanceAccessToken,
    getIbmAccessToken,
-    getAwsAuthToken,
-    getVerbioAccessToken
  } = require('@jambonz/speech-utils')({}, logger);
  const {
    writeAlerts,
@@ -208,8 +190,7 @@ function installSrfLocals(srf, logger) {

  let localIp;
  try {
-    // Either use the configured IP address or discover it
-    localIp = HTTP_IP || getLocalIp();
+    localIp = ip.address();
  } catch (err) {
    logger.error({err}, 'installSrfLocals - error detecting local ipv4 address');
  }
@@ -229,14 +210,11 @@ function installSrfLocals(srf, logger) {
      lookupAccountCapacitiesBySid,
      lookupSmppGateways,
      lookupClientByAccountAndUsername,
-      lookupSystemInformation,
      updateCallStatus,
      retrieveCall,
      listCalls,
      deleteCall,
      synthAudio,
-      getAwsAuthToken,
-      addFileToCache,
      createHash,
      retrieveHash,
      deleteKey,
@@ -257,8 +235,7 @@ function installSrfLocals(srf, logger) {
      retrieveFromSortedSet,
      retrieveByPatternSortedSet,
      sortedSetLength,
-      sortedSetPositionByPattern,
-      getVerbioAccessToken
+      sortedSetPositionByPattern
    },
    parentLogger: logger,
    getSBC,
--- a/lib/utils/parse-decibels.js
+++ b/lib/utils/parse-decibels.js
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-const parseDecibels = (db) => {
-  if (!db) return 0;
-  if (typeof db === 'number') {
-    return db;
-  }
-  else if (typeof db === 'string') {
-    const match = db.match(/([+-]?\d+(\.\d+)?)\s*db/i);
-    if (match) {
-      return Math.trunc(parseFloat(match[1]));
-    } else {
-      return 0;
-    }
-  } else {
-    return 0;
-  }
-};
-
-module.exports = parseDecibels;
--- a/lib/utils/place-outdial.js
+++ b/lib/utils/place-outdial.js
@@ -16,9 +16,6 @@ const uuidv4 = require('uuid-random');
 const HttpRequestor = require('./http-requestor');
 const WsRequestor = require('./ws-requestor');
 const {makeOpusFirst} = require('./sdp-utils');
-const {
-  JAMBONES_USE_FREESWITCH_TIMER_FD
-} = require('../config');

 class SingleDialer extends Emitter {
  constructor({logger, sbcAddress, target, opts, application, callInfo, accountInfo, rootSpan, startSpan, dialTask,
@@ -195,10 +192,6 @@ class SingleDialer extends Emitter {
            callSid: this.callSid,
            traceId: this.rootSpan.traceId
          });
-          if (this.dialTask && this.dialTask.tag !== null &&
-            typeof this.dialTask.tag === 'object' && !Array.isArray(this.dialTask.tag)) {
-            this.callInfo.customerData = this.dialTask.tag;
-          }
          this.logger = srf.locals.parentLogger.child({
            callSid: this.callSid,
            parentCallSid: this.parentCallInfo.callSid,
@@ -213,8 +206,6 @@ class SingleDialer extends Emitter {
        },
        cbProvisional: (prov) => {
          const status = {sipStatus: prov.status, sipReason: prov.reason};
-          // Update call-id for sbc outbound INVITE
-          this.callInfo.sbcCallid = prov.get('X-CID');
          if ([180, 183].includes(prov.status) && prov.body) {
            if (status.callStatus !== CallStatus.EarlyMedia) {
              status.callStatus = CallStatus.EarlyMedia;
@@ -297,17 +288,17 @@ class SingleDialer extends Emitter {
        if (err.status === 487) status.callStatus = CallStatus.NoAnswer;
        else if ([486, 600].includes(err.status)) status.callStatus = CallStatus.Busy;
        this.logger.info(`SingleDialer:exec outdial failure ${err.status}`);
-        inviteSpan?.setAttributes({'invite.status_code': err.status});
-        inviteSpan?.end();
+        inviteSpan.setAttributes({'invite.status_code': err.status});
+        inviteSpan.end();
      }
      else {
        this.logger.error(err, 'SingleDialer:exec');
        status.sipStatus = 500;
-        inviteSpan?.setAttributes({
+        inviteSpan.setAttributes({
          'invite.status_code': 500,
          'invite.err': err.message
        });
-        inviteSpan?.end();
+        inviteSpan.end();
      }
      this.emit('callStatusChange', status);
      if (this.ep) this.ep.destroy();
@@ -333,12 +324,8 @@ class SingleDialer extends Emitter {
  }

  _configMsEndpoint() {
-    const opts = {
-      ...(this.onHoldMusic && {holdMusic: `shout://${this.onHoldMusic.replace(/^https?:\/\//, '')}`}),
-      ...(JAMBONES_USE_FREESWITCH_TIMER_FD && {timer_name: 'timerfd'})
-    };
-    if (Object.keys(opts).length > 0) {
-      this.ep.set(opts);
+    if (this.onHoldMusic) {
+      this.ep.set({hold_music: `shout://${this.onHoldMusic.replace(/^https?:\/\//, '')}`});
    }
  }

@@ -355,7 +342,6 @@ class SingleDialer extends Emitter {
      const json = await this.requestor.request('dial:confirm', confirmHook, this.callInfo.toJSON());
      if (!json || (Array.isArray(json) && json.length === 0)) {
        this.logger.info('SingleDialer:_executeApp: no tasks returned from confirm hook');
-        this.emit('accept');
        return;
      }
      const tasks = normalizeJambones(this.logger, json).map((tdata) => makeTask(this.logger, tdata));
@@ -415,7 +401,6 @@ class SingleDialer extends Emitter {
    const app = {...application};
    if ('WS' === app.call_hook?.method ||
      app.call_hook?.url.startsWith('ws://') || app.call_hook?.url.startsWith('wss://')) {
-      if (app.call_hook?.url) app.call_hook.url += '/adulting';
      const requestor = new WsRequestor(logger, this.accountInfo.account.account_sid,
        app.call_hook, this.accountInfo.account.webhook_secret);
      app.requestor = requestor;
@@ -430,8 +415,6 @@ class SingleDialer extends Emitter {
        this.accountInfo.account.webhook_secret);
      else app.notifier = {request: () => {}, close: () => {}};
    }
-    // Replace old application with new application.
-    this.application = app;
    const cs = new AdultingCallSession({
      logger: newLogger,
      singleDialer: this,
@@ -441,16 +424,7 @@ class SingleDialer extends Emitter {
      tasks,
      rootSpan
    });
-    app.requestor.request('session:adulting', '/adulting', {
-      ...cs.callInfo.toJSON(),
-      parentCallInfo: this.parentCallInfo.toJSON()
-    }).catch((err) => {
-      newLogger.error({err}, 'doAdulting: error sending adulting request');
-    });
-
    cs.req = this.req;
-    // fixed hangup an adulting session does not send status callback Completed
-    cs.wrapDialog(this.dlg);
    cs.exec().catch((err) => newLogger.error({err}, 'doAdulting: error executing session'));
    return cs;
  }
--- a/lib/utils/transcription-utils.js
+++ b/lib/utils/transcription-utils.js
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-const {TaskName} = require('./constants.json');
+const {
+  TaskName,
+} = require('./constants.json');
+
 const stickyVars = {
  google: [
    'GOOGLE_SPEECH_HINTS',
@@ -42,19 +45,12 @@ const stickyVars = {
    'DEEPGRAM_SPEECH_ENDPOINTING',
    'DEEPGRAM_SPEECH_UTTERANCE_END_MS',
    'DEEPGRAM_SPEECH_VAD_TURNOFF',
-    'DEEPGRAM_SPEECH_TAG',
-    'DEEPGRAM_SPEECH_MODEL_VERSION'
+    'DEEPGRAM_SPEECH_TAG'
  ],
  aws: [
    'AWS_VOCABULARY_NAME',
    'AWS_VOCABULARY_FILTER_METHOD',
-    'AWS_VOCABULARY_FILTER_NAME',
-    'AWS_LANGUAGE_MODEL_NAME',
-    'AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID',
-    'AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY',
-    'AWS_REGION',
-    'AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN',
-    'AWS_PII_ENTITY_TYPES',
+    'AWS_VOCABULARY_FILTER_NAME'
  ],
  nuance: [
    'NUANCE_ACCESS_TOKEN',
@@ -103,86 +99,54 @@ const stickyVars = {
  assemblyai: [
    'ASSEMBLYAI_API_KEY',
    'ASSEMBLYAI_WORD_BOOST'
-  ],
-  speechmatics: [
-    'SPEECHMATICS_API_KEY',
-    'SPEECHMATICS_HOST',
-    'SPEECHMATICS_PATH',
-    'SPEECHMATICS_SPEECH_HINTS',
  ]
 };

-/**
- * @see https://developers.deepgram.com/docs/models-languages-overview
- */
 const optimalDeepramModels = {
  zh: ['base', 'base'],
  'zh-CN':['base', 'base'],
  'zh-TW': ['base', 'base'],
  da: ['enhanced', 'enhanced'],
-  en: ['nova-2-phonecall', 'nova-2'],
-  'en-US': ['nova-2-phonecall', 'nova-2'],
-  'en-AU': ['nova-2', 'nova-2'],
-  'en-GB': ['nova-2', 'nova-2'],
-  'en-IN': ['nova-2', 'nova-2'],
-  'en-NZ': ['nova-2', 'nova-2'],
-  nl: ['nova-2', 'nova-2'],
-  fr: ['nova-2', 'nova-2'],
-  'fr-CA': ['nova-2', 'nova-2'],
-  de: ['nova-2', 'nova-2'],
-  hi: ['nova-2', 'nova-2'],
-  'hi-Latn': ['nova-2', 'nova-2'],
+  en: ['nova-2-conversationalai', 'nova-2'],
+  'en-US': ['nova-2-conversationalai', 'nova-2'],
+  'en-AU': ['nova-2-conversationalai', 'nova-2'],
+  'en-GB': ['nova-2-conversationalai', 'nova-2'],
+  'en-IN': ['nova-2-conversationalai', 'nova-2'],
+  'en-NZ': ['nova-2-conversationalai', 'nova-2'],
+  nl: ['nova-2-conversationalai', 'nova-2'],
+  fr: ['nova-2-conversationalai', 'nova-2'],
+  'fr-CA': ['nova-2-conversationalai', 'nova-2'],
+  de: ['nova-2-conversationalai', 'nova-2'],
+  hi: ['nova-2-conversationalai', 'nova-2'],
+  'hi-Latn': ['nova-2-conversationalai', 'nova-2'],
  id: ['base', 'base'],
-  it: ['nova-2', 'nova-2'],
+  it: ['enhanced', 'enhanced'],
  ja: ['enhanced', 'enhanced'],
-  ko: ['nova-2', 'nova-2'],
-  no: ['nova-2', 'nova-2'],
-  pl: ['nova-2', 'nova-2'],
-  pt: ['nova-2', 'nova-2'],
-  'pt-BR': ['nova-2', 'nova-2'],
-  'pt-PT': ['nova-2', 'nova-2'],
-  ru: ['nova-2', 'nova-2'],
-  es: ['nova-2', 'nova-2'],
-  'es-419': ['nova-2', 'nova-2'],
+  ko: ['enhanced', 'enhanced'],
+  no: ['enhanced', 'enhanced'],
+  pl: ['enhanced', 'enhanced'],
+  pt: ['nova-2-conversationalai', 'nova-2'],
+  'pt-BR': ['nova-2-conversationalai', 'nova-2'],
+  'pt-PT': ['base', 'base'],
+  ru: ['base', 'base'],
+  es: ['nova-2-conversationalai', 'nova-2'],
+  'es-419': ['nova-2-conversationalai', 'nova-2'],
  'es-LATAM': ['enhanced', 'enhanced'],
-  sv: ['nova-2', 'nova-2'],
+  sv: ['enhanced', 'enhanced'],
  ta: ['enhanced', 'enhanced'],
  taq: ['enhanced', 'enhanced'],
-  tr: ['nova-2', 'nova-2'],
-  uk: ['nova-2', 'nova-2']
+  tr: ['base', 'base'],
+  uk: ['base', 'base']
 };
+
 const selectDefaultDeepgramModel = (task, language) => {
  if (language in optimalDeepramModels) {
    const [gather, transcribe] = optimalDeepramModels[language];
    return task.name === TaskName.Gather ? gather : transcribe;
  }
-  return 'base';
 };

-const optimalGoogleModels = {
-  'v1' : {
-    'en-IN':['telephony', 'telephony'],
-    'es-DO':['default', 'default'],
-    'es-MX':['default', 'default'],
-    'en-AU':['telephony', 'telephony'],
-    'en-GB':['telephony', 'telephony'],
-    'en-NZ':['telephony', 'telephony']
-  },
-  'v2' : {
-    'en-IN':['telephony', 'long']
-  }
-};
-const selectDefaultGoogleModel = (task, language, version) => {
-  const useV2 = version === 'v2';
-  if (language in optimalGoogleModels[version]) {
-    const [gather, transcribe] = optimalGoogleModels[version][language];
-    return task.name === TaskName.Gather ? gather : transcribe;
-  }
-  return task.name === TaskName.Gather ?
-    (useV2 ? 'telephony_short' : 'command_and_search') :
-    (useV2 ? 'long' : 'latest_long');
-};
-const consolidateTranscripts = (bufferedTranscripts, channel, language, vendor) => {
+const consolidateTranscripts = (bufferedTranscripts, channel, language) => {
  if (bufferedTranscripts.length === 1) return bufferedTranscripts[0];
  let totalConfidence = 0;
  const finalTranscript = bufferedTranscripts.reduce((acc, evt) => {
@@ -223,7 +187,7 @@ const consolidateTranscripts = (bufferedTranscripts, channel, language, vendor)
    totalConfidence / bufferedTranscripts.length;
  finalTranscript.alternatives[0].transcript = finalTranscript.alternatives[0].transcript.trim();
  finalTranscript.vendor = {
-    name: vendor,
+    name: 'deepgram',
    evt: bufferedTranscripts
  };
  return finalTranscript;
@@ -302,7 +266,7 @@ const normalizeDeepgram = (evt, channel, language, shortUtterance) => {
    language_code: language,
    channel_tag: channel,
    is_final: shortUtterance ? evt.is_final : evt.speech_final,
-    alternatives: alternatives.length ? [alternatives[0]] : [],
+    alternatives: [alternatives[0]],
    vendor: {
      name: 'deepgram',
      evt: copy
@@ -348,10 +312,8 @@ const normalizeIbm = (evt, channel, language) => {

 const normalizeGoogle = (evt, channel, language) => {
  const copy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(evt));
-  const language_code = evt.language_code || language;
-
  return {
-    language_code: language_code,
+    language_code: language,
    channel_tag: channel,
    is_final: evt.is_final,
    alternatives: [evt.alternatives[0]],
@@ -410,20 +372,6 @@ const normalizeNuance = (evt, channel, language) => {
  };
 };

-const normalizeVerbio = (evt, channel, language) => {
-  const copy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(evt));
-  return {
-    language_code: language,
-    channel_tag: channel,
-    is_final: evt.is_final,
-    alternatives: evt.alternatives,
-    vendor: {
-      name: 'verbio',
-      evt: copy
-    }
-  };
-};
-
 const normalizeMicrosoft = (evt, channel, language, punctuation = true) => {
  const copy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(evt));
  const nbest = evt.NBest;
@@ -455,41 +403,16 @@ const normalizeMicrosoft = (evt, channel, language, punctuation = true) => {

 const normalizeAws = (evt, channel, language) => {
  const copy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(evt));
-  const isGrpcPayload = Array.isArray(evt);
-  if (isGrpcPayload) {
-    /* legacy grpc api */
-    return {
-      language_code: language,
-      channel_tag: channel,
-      is_final: evt[0].is_final,
-      alternatives: evt[0].alternatives,
-      vendor: {
-        name: 'aws',
-        evt: copy
-      }
-    };
-  }
-  else {
-    /* websocket api */
-    const alternatives = evt.Transcript?.Results[0]?.Alternatives.map((alt) => {
-      const items = alt.Items.filter((item) => item.Type === 'pronunciation' && 'Confidence' in item);
-      const confidence = items.reduce((acc, item) => acc + item.Confidence, 0) / items.length;
-      return {
-        transcript: alt.Transcript,
-        confidence
-      };
-    });
-    return {
-      language_code: language,
-      channel_tag: channel,
-      is_final: evt.Transcript?.Results[0].IsPartial === false,
-      alternatives,
-      vendor: {
-        name: 'aws',
-        evt: copy
-      }
-    };
-  }
+  return {
+    language_code: language,
+    channel_tag: channel,
+    is_final: evt[0].is_final,
+    alternatives: evt[0].alternatives,
+    vendor: {
+      name: 'aws',
+      evt: copy
+    }
+  };
 };

 const normalizeAssemblyAi = (evt, channel, language) => {
@@ -505,37 +428,12 @@ const normalizeAssemblyAi = (evt, channel, language) => {
      }
    ],
    vendor: {
-      name: 'assemblyai',
+      name: 'ASSEMBLYAI',
      evt: copy
    }
  };
 };

-const normalizeSpeechmatics = (evt, channel, language) => {
-  const copy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(evt));
-  const is_final = evt.message === 'AddTranscript';
-  const words = evt.results?.filter((r) => r.type === 'word') || [];
-  const confidence = words.length > 0 ?
-    words.reduce((acc, word) => acc + word.alternatives[0].confidence, 0) / words.length :
-    0;
-
-  const alternative = {
-    confidence,
-    transcript: evt.metadata?.transcript
-  };
-  const obj = {
-    language_code: language,
-    channel_tag: channel,
-    is_final,
-    alternatives: [alternative],
-    vendor: {
-      name: 'speechmatics',
-      evt: copy
-    }
-  };
-  return obj;
-};
-
 module.exports = (logger) => {
  const normalizeTranscription = (evt, vendor, channel, language, shortUtterance, punctuation) => {

@@ -561,10 +459,6 @@ module.exports = (logger) => {
        return normalizeCobalt(evt, channel, language);
      case 'assemblyai':
        return normalizeAssemblyAi(evt, channel, language, shortUtterance);
-      case 'verbio':
-        return normalizeVerbio(evt, channel, language);
-      case 'speechmatics':
-        return normalizeSpeechmatics(evt, channel, language);
      default:
        if (vendor.startsWith('custom:')) {
          return normalizeCustom(evt, channel, language, vendor);
@@ -576,13 +470,20 @@ module.exports = (logger) => {

  const setChannelVarsForStt = (task, sttCredentials, language, rOpts = {}) => {
    let opts = {};
+    const {enable, voiceMs = 0, mode = -1} = rOpts.vad || {};
+    const vad = {enable, voiceMs, mode};
    const vendor = rOpts.vendor;

+    /* voice activity detection works across vendors */
+    opts = {
+      ...opts,
+      ...(vad.enable && {START_RECOGNIZING_ON_VAD: 1}),
+      ...(vad.enable && vad.voiceMs && {RECOGNIZER_VAD_VOICE_MS: vad.voiceMs}),
+      ...(vad.enable && typeof vad.mode === 'number' && {RECOGNIZER_VAD_MODE: vad.mode}),
+    };
+
    if ('google' === vendor) {
-      const useV2 = rOpts.googleOptions?.serviceVersion === 'v2';
-      const version = useV2 ? 'v2' : 'v1';
-      let {model} = rOpts;
-      model = model || selectDefaultGoogleModel(task, language, version);
+      const model = task.name === TaskName.Gather ? 'command_and_search' : 'latest_long';
      opts = {
        ...opts,
        ...(sttCredentials && {GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS: JSON.stringify(sttCredentials.credentials)}),
@@ -615,52 +516,19 @@ module.exports = (logger) => {
        ...{GOOGLE_SPEECH_MODEL: rOpts.model || model},
        ...(rOpts.naicsCode > 0 && {GOOGLE_SPEECH_METADATA_INDUSTRY_NAICS_CODE: rOpts.naicsCode}),
        GOOGLE_SPEECH_METADATA_RECORDING_DEVICE_TYPE: 'phone_line',
-        ...(useV2 && {
-          GOOGLE_SPEECH_RECOGNIZER_PARENT: `projects/${sttCredentials.credentials.project_id}/locations/global`,
-          GOOGLE_SPEECH_CLOUD_SERVICES_VERSION: 'v2',
-          ...(rOpts.googleOptions?.speechStartTimeoutMs && {
-            GOOGLE_SPEECH_START_TIMEOUT_MS: rOpts.googleOptions.speechStartTimeoutMs
-          }),
-          ...(rOpts.googleOptions?.speechEndTimeoutMs && {
-            GOOGLE_SPEECH_END_TIMEOUT_MS: rOpts.googleOptions.speechEndTimeoutMs
-          }),
-          ...(rOpts.googleOptions?.transcriptNormalization && {
-            GOOGLE_SPEECH_TRANSCRIPTION_NORMALIZATION: JSON.stringify(rOpts.googleOptions.transcriptNormalization)
-          }),
-          ...(rOpts.googleOptions?.enableVoiceActivityEvents && {
-            GOOGLE_SPEECH_ENABLE_VOICE_ACTIVITY_EVENTS: rOpts.googleOptions.enableVoiceActivityEvents
-          }),
-          ...(rOpts.sgoogleOptions?.recognizerId) && {GOOGLE_SPEECH_RECOGNIZER_ID: rOpts.googleOptions.recognizerId},
-          ...(rOpts.googleOptions?.enableVoiceActivityEvents && {
-            GOOGLE_SPEECH_ENABLE_VOICE_ACTIVITY_EVENTS: rOpts.googleOptions.enableVoiceActivityEvents
-          }),
-        }),
      };
    }
    else if (['aws', 'polly'].includes(vendor)) {
-      const {awsOptions = {}} = rOpts;
-      const vocabularyName = awsOptions.vocabularyName || rOpts.vocabularyName;
-      const vocabularyFilterName = awsOptions.vocabularyFilterName || rOpts.vocabularyFilterName;
-      const filterMethod = awsOptions.vocabularyFilterMethod || rOpts.filterMethod;
      opts = {
        ...opts,
-        ...(vocabularyName && {AWS_VOCABULARY_NAME: vocabularyName}),
-        ...(vocabularyFilterName && {AWS_VOCABULARY_FILTER_NAME: vocabularyFilterName}),
-        ...(filterMethod && {AWS_VOCABULARY_FILTER_METHOD: filterMethod}),
+        ...(rOpts.vocabularyName && {AWS_VOCABULARY_NAME: rOpts.vocabularyName}),
+        ...(rOpts.vocabularyFilterName && {AWS_VOCABULARY_FILTER_NAME: rOpts.vocabularyFilterName}),
+        ...(rOpts.filterMethod && {AWS_VOCABULARY_FILTER_METHOD: rOpts.filterMethod}),
        ...(sttCredentials && {
          AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: sttCredentials.accessKeyId,
          AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: sttCredentials.secretAccessKey,
-          AWS_REGION: sttCredentials.region,
-          AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN: sttCredentials.securityToken
+          AWS_REGION: sttCredentials.region
        }),
-        ...(awsOptions.accessKey && {AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: awsOptions.accessKey}),
-        ...(awsOptions.secretKey && {AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: awsOptions.secretKey}),
-        ...(awsOptions.region && {AWS_REGION: awsOptions.region}),
-        ...(awsOptions.securityToken && {AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN: awsOptions.securityToken}),
-        ...(awsOptions.languageModelName && {AWS_LANGUAGE_MODEL_NAME: awsOptions.languageModelName}),
-        ...(awsOptions.piiEntityTypes?.length && {AWS_PII_ENTITY_TYPES: awsOptions.piiEntityTypes.join(',')}),
-        ...(awsOptions.piiIdentifyEntities && {AWS_PII_IDENTIFY_ENTITIES: true}),
-        ...(awsOptions.languageModelName && {AWS_LANGUAGE_MODEL_NAME: awsOptions.languageModelName}),
      };
    }
    else if ('microsoft' === vendor) {
@@ -686,10 +554,6 @@ module.exports = (logger) => {
        ...{AZURE_USE_OUTPUT_FORMAT_DETAILED: 1},
        ...(azureOptions.speechSegmentationSilenceTimeoutMs &&
          {AZURE_SPEECH_SEGMENTATION_SILENCE_TIMEOUT_MS: azureOptions.speechSegmentationSilenceTimeoutMs}),
-        ...(azureOptions.languageIdMode &&
-          {AZURE_LANGUAGE_ID_MODE: azureOptions.languageIdMode}),
-        ...(azureOptions.postProcessing &&
-          {AZURE_POST_PROCESSING_OPTION: azureOptions.postProcessing}),
        ...(sttCredentials && {
          ...(sttCredentials.api_key && {AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_KEY: sttCredentials.api_key}),
          ...(sttCredentials.region && {AZURE_REGION: sttCredentials.region}),
@@ -750,24 +614,18 @@ module.exports = (logger) => {
      };
    }
    else if ('deepgram' === vendor) {
-      let {model} = rOpts;
      const {deepgramOptions = {}} = rOpts;
-      const deepgramUri = deepgramOptions.deepgramSttUri || sttCredentials.deepgram_stt_uri;
-      const useTls = deepgramOptions.deepgramSttUseTls || sttCredentials.deepgram_stt_use_tls;
-
-      /* default to a sensible model if not supplied */
-      if (!model) {
-        model = selectDefaultDeepgramModel(task, language);
+      if (!deepgramOptions.model) {
+        deepgramOptions.model = selectDefaultDeepgramModel(task, language);
      }
      opts = {
        ...opts,
-        DEEPGRAM_SPEECH_MODEL: model,
-        ...(deepgramUri && {DEEPGRAM_URI: deepgramUri}),
-        ...(deepgramUri && useTls && {DEEPGRAM_USE_TLS: 1}),
        ...(sttCredentials.api_key) &&
          {DEEPGRAM_API_KEY: sttCredentials.api_key},
        ...(deepgramOptions.tier) &&
          {DEEPGRAM_SPEECH_TIER: deepgramOptions.tier},
+        ...(deepgramOptions.model) &&
+          {DEEPGRAM_SPEECH_MODEL: deepgramOptions.model},
        ...(deepgramOptions.punctuate) &&
          {DEEPGRAM_SPEECH_ENABLE_AUTOMATIC_PUNCTUATION: 1},
        ...(deepgramOptions.smartFormatting) &&
@@ -797,17 +655,13 @@ module.exports = (logger) => {
        ...(deepgramOptions.keywords) &&
          {DEEPGRAM_SPEECH_KEYWORDS: deepgramOptions.keywords.join(',')},
        ...('endpointing' in deepgramOptions) &&
-          {DEEPGRAM_SPEECH_ENDPOINTING: deepgramOptions.endpointing === false ? 'false' : deepgramOptions.endpointing,
-            // default DEEPGRAM_SPEECH_UTTERANCE_END_MS is 1000, will be override by user settings later if there is.
-            DEEPGRAM_SPEECH_UTTERANCE_END_MS: 1000},
+          {DEEPGRAM_SPEECH_ENDPOINTING: deepgramOptions.endpointing === false ? 'false' : deepgramOptions.endpointing},
        ...(deepgramOptions.utteranceEndMs) &&
          {DEEPGRAM_SPEECH_UTTERANCE_END_MS: deepgramOptions.utteranceEndMs},
        ...(deepgramOptions.vadTurnoff) &&
          {DEEPGRAM_SPEECH_VAD_TURNOFF: deepgramOptions.vadTurnoff},
        ...(deepgramOptions.tag) &&
-          {DEEPGRAM_SPEECH_TAG: deepgramOptions.tag},
-        ...(deepgramOptions.version) &&
-          {DEEPGRAM_SPEECH_MODEL_VERSION: deepgramOptions.version}
+          {DEEPGRAM_SPEECH_TAG: deepgramOptions.tag}
      };
    }
    else if ('soniox' === vendor) {
@@ -906,8 +760,7 @@ module.exports = (logger) => {
        ...(cobaltOptions.enableConfusionNetwork && {COBALT_ENABLE_CONFUSION_NETWORK: 1}),
        ...(cobaltOptions.compiledContextData && {COBALT_COMPILED_CONTEXT_DATA: cobaltOptions.compiledContextData}),
      };
-    }
-    else if ('assemblyai' === vendor) {
+    } else if ('assemblyai' === vendor) {
      opts = {
        ...opts,
        ...(sttCredentials.api_key) &&
@@ -916,37 +769,8 @@ module.exports = (logger) => {
          {ASSEMBLYAI_WORD_BOOST: JSON.stringify(rOpts.hints)})
      };
    }
-    else if ('verbio' === vendor) {
-      const {verbioOptions = {}} = rOpts;
-      opts = {
-        ...opts,
-        ...(sttCredentials.access_token && { VERBIO_ACCESS_TOKEN: sttCredentials.access_token}),
-        ...(sttCredentials.engine_version && {VERBIO_ENGINE_VERSION: sttCredentials.engine_version}),
-        ...(language && {VERBIO_LANGUAGE: language}),
-        ...(verbioOptions.enable_formatting && {VERBIO_ENABLE_FORMATTING: verbioOptions.enable_formatting}),
-        ...(verbioOptions.enable_diarization && {VERBIO_ENABLE_DIARIZATION: verbioOptions.enable_diarization}),
-        ...(verbioOptions.topic && {VERBIO_TOPIC: verbioOptions.topic}),
-        ...(verbioOptions.inline_grammar && {VERBIO_INLINE_GRAMMAR: verbioOptions.inline_grammar}),
-        ...(verbioOptions.grammar_uri && {VERBIO_GRAMMAR_URI: verbioOptions.grammar_uri}),
-        ...(verbioOptions.label && {VERBIO_LABEL: verbioOptions.label}),
-        ...(verbioOptions.recognition_timeout && {VERBIO_RECOGNITION_TIMEOUT: verbioOptions.recognition_timeout}),
-        ...(verbioOptions.speech_complete_timeout &&
-          {VERBIO_SPEECH_COMPLETE_TIMEOUT: verbioOptions.speech_complete_timeout}),
-        ...(verbioOptions.speech_incomplete_timeout &&
-          {VERBIO_SPEECH_INCOMPLETE_TIMEOUT: verbioOptions.speech_incomplete_timeout}),
-      };
-    }
-    else if ('speechmatics' === vendor) {
-      opts = {
-        ...opts,
-        ...(sttCredentials.api_key) && {SPEECHMATICS_API_KEY: sttCredentials.api_key},
-        ...(sttCredentials.speechmatics_stt_uri) && {SPEECHMATICS_HOST: sttCredentials.speechmatics_stt_uri},
-        ...(rOpts.hints?.length > 0 && {SPEECHMATICS_SPEECH_HINTS: rOpts.hints.join(',')}),
-      };
-    }
    else if (vendor.startsWith('custom:')) {
-      let {options = {}} = rOpts.customOptions || {};
-      const {sampleRate} = rOpts.customOptions || {};
+      let {options = {}} = rOpts;
      const {auth_token, custom_stt_url} = sttCredentials;
      options = {
        ...options,
@@ -954,15 +778,14 @@ module.exports = (logger) => {
        {hints: rOpts.hints}),
        ...(rOpts.hints?.length > 0 && typeof rOpts.hints[0] === 'object' &&
        {hints: JSON.stringify(rOpts.hints)}),
-        ...(typeof rOpts.hintsBoost === 'number' && {hintsBoost: rOpts.hintsBoost}),
-        ...(task.cs?.callSid && {callSid: task.cs.callSid})
+        ...(typeof rOpts.hintsBoost === 'number' && {hintsBoost: rOpts.hintsBoost})
      };
+
      opts = {
        ...opts,
        ...(auth_token && {JAMBONZ_STT_API_KEY: auth_token}),
        JAMBONZ_STT_URL: custom_stt_url,
        ...(Object.keys(options).length > 0 && {JAMBONZ_STT_OPTIONS: JSON.stringify(options)}),
-        ...(sampleRate && {JAMBONZ_STT_SAMPLING: sampleRate})
      };
    }

@@ -1012,6 +835,6 @@ module.exports = (logger) => {
    setChannelVarsForStt,
    setSpeechCredentialsAtRuntime,
    compileSonioxTranscripts,
-    consolidateTranscripts,
+    consolidateTranscripts
  };
 };
--- a/lib/utils/ws-requestor.js
+++ b/lib/utils/ws-requestor.js
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ class WsRequestor extends BaseRequestor {
  async request(type, hook, params, httpHeaders = {}) {
    assert(HookMsgTypes.includes(type));
    const url = hook.url || hook;
-    const wantsAck = !['call:status', 'verb:status', 'jambonz:error', 'llm:event', 'llm:tool-call'].includes(type);
+    const wantsAck = !['call:status', 'verb:status', 'jambonz:error'].includes(type);

    if (this.maliciousClient) {
      this.logger.info({url: this.url}, 'WsRequestor:request - discarding msg to malicious client');
@@ -56,12 +56,6 @@ class WsRequestor extends BaseRequestor {
    }

    if (type === 'session:new') this.call_sid = params.callSid;
-    if (type === 'session:reconnect') {
-      this._reconnectPromise = new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-        this._reconnectResolve = resolve;
-        this._reconnectReject = reject;
-      });
-    }

    /* if we have an absolute url, and it is http then do a standard webhook */
    if (this._isAbsoluteUrl(url) && url.startsWith('http')) {
@@ -77,23 +71,20 @@ class WsRequestor extends BaseRequestor {
    }

    /* connect if necessary */
-    const queueMsg = () => {
-      this.logger.debug(
-        `WsRequestor:request(${this.id}) - queueing ${type} message since we are connecting`);
-      if (wantsAck) {
-        const p = new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-          this.queuedMsg.push({type, hook, params, httpHeaders, promise: {resolve, reject}});
-        });
-        return p;
-      }
-      else {
-        this.queuedMsg.push({type, hook, params, httpHeaders});
-      }
-      return;
-    };
    if (!this.ws) {
      if (this.connectInProgress) {
-        return queueMsg();
+        this.logger.debug(
+          `WsRequestor:request(${this.id}) - queueing ${type} message since we are connecting`);
+        if (wantsAck) {
+          const p = new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+            this.queuedMsg.push({type, hook, params, httpHeaders, promise: {resolve, reject}});
+          });
+          return p;
+        }
+        else {
+          this.queuedMsg.push({type, hook, params, httpHeaders});
+        }
+        return;
      }
      this.connectInProgress = true;
      this.logger.debug(`WsRequestor:request(${this.id}) - connecting since we do not have a connection for ${type}`);
@@ -111,10 +102,6 @@ class WsRequestor extends BaseRequestor {
        return Promise.reject(err);
      }
    }
-    // If jambonz wait for ack from reconnect, queue the msg until reconnect is acked
-    if (type !== 'session:reconnect' && this._reconnectPromise) {
-      return queueMsg();
-    }
    assert(this.ws);

    /* prepare and send message */
@@ -132,7 +119,7 @@ class WsRequestor extends BaseRequestor {
      type,
      msgid,
      call_sid: this.call_sid,
-      hook: ['verb:hook', 'session:redirect', 'llm:event', 'llm:tool-call'].includes(type) ? url : undefined,
+      hook: type === 'verb:hook' ? url : undefined,
      data: {...payload},
      ...b3
    };
@@ -152,18 +139,6 @@ class WsRequestor extends BaseRequestor {
      }
    };

-    const rejectQueuedMsgs = (err) => {
-      if (this.queuedMsg.length > 0) {
-        for (const {promise} of this.queuedMsg) {
-          this.logger.debug(`WsRequestor:request - preparing queued ${type} for rejectQueuedMsgs`);
-          if (promise) {
-            promise.reject(err);
-          }
-        }
-        this.queuedMsg.length = 0;
-      }
-    };
-
    //this.logger.debug({obj}, `websocket: sending (${url})`);

    /* special case: reconnecting before we received ack to session:new */
@@ -204,37 +179,16 @@ class WsRequestor extends BaseRequestor {
          this.logger.debug({response}, `WsRequestor:request ${url} succeeded in ${rtt}ms`);
          this.stats.histogram('app.hook.ws_response_time', rtt, ['hook_type:app']);
          resolve(response);
-          if (this._reconnectResolve) {
-            this._reconnectResolve();
-          }
        },
        failure: (err) => {
-          if (this._reconnectReject) {
-            this._reconnectReject(err);
-          }
          clearTimeout(timer);
          reject(err);
        }
      });

      /* send the message */
-      this.ws.send(JSON.stringify(obj), async() => {
+      this.ws.send(JSON.stringify(obj), () => {
        this.logger.debug({obj}, `WsRequestor:request websocket: sent (${url})`);
-        // If session:reconnect is waiting for ack, hold here until ack to send queuedMsgs
-        if (this._reconnectPromise) {
-          try {
-            await this._reconnectPromise;
-          } catch (err) {
-            // bad thing happened to session:recconnect
-            rejectQueuedMsgs(err);
-            this.emit('reconnect-error');
-            return;
-          } finally {
-            this._reconnectPromise = null;
-            this._reconnectResolve = null;
-            this._reconnectReject = null;
-          }
-        }
        sendQueuedMsgs();
      });
    });
@@ -372,9 +326,7 @@ class WsRequestor extends BaseRequestor {
          'WsRequestor:_onSocketClosed time to reconnect');
        if (!this.ws && !this.connectInProgress) {
          this.connectInProgress = true;
-          return this._connect()
-            .catch((err) => this.logger.error('WsRequestor:_onSocketClosed There is error while reconnect', err))
-            .finally(() => this.connectInProgress = false);
+          this._connect().catch((err) => this.connectInProgress = false);
        }
      }, this.backoffMs);
      this.backoffMs = this.backoffMs < 2000 ? this.backoffMs * 2 : (this.backoffMs + 2000);
@@ -392,10 +344,7 @@ class WsRequestor extends BaseRequestor {
    /* messages must be JSON format */
    try {
      const obj = JSON.parse(content);
-      this.logger.debug({obj}, 'WsRequestor:_onMessage - received message');
-      //const {type, msgid, command, call_sid = this.call_sid, queueCommand = false, data} = obj;
-      const {type, msgid, command, queueCommand = false, tool_call_id, data} = obj;
-      const call_sid = obj.callSid || this.call_sid;
+      const {type, msgid, command, call_sid = this.call_sid, queueCommand = false, data} = obj;

      //this.logger.debug({obj}, 'WsRequestor:request websocket: received');
      assert.ok(type, 'type property not supplied');
@@ -408,8 +357,8 @@ class WsRequestor extends BaseRequestor {

        case 'command':
          assert.ok(command, 'command property not supplied');
-          assert.ok(data || command === 'llm:tool-output', 'data property not supplied');
-          this._recvCommand(msgid, command, call_sid, queueCommand, tool_call_id, data);
+          assert.ok(data, 'data property not supplied');
+          this._recvCommand(msgid, command, call_sid, queueCommand, data);
          break;

        default:
@@ -433,10 +382,10 @@ class WsRequestor extends BaseRequestor {
    success && success(data);
  }

-  _recvCommand(msgid, command, call_sid, queueCommand, tool_call_id, data) {
+  _recvCommand(msgid, command, call_sid, queueCommand, data) {
    // TODO: validate command
    this.logger.debug({msgid, command, call_sid, queueCommand, data}, 'received command');
-    this.emit('command', {msgid, command, call_sid, queueCommand, tool_call_id, data});
+    this.emit('command', {msgid, command, call_sid, queueCommand, data});
  }
 }

--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 {
  "name": "jambonz-feature-server",
-  "version": "0.9.2",
+  "version": "0.8.5",
  "main": "app.js",
  "engines": {
-    "node": ">= 18.x"
+    "node": ">= 10.16.0"
  },
  "keywords": [
    "sip",
@@ -25,56 +25,57 @@
    "jslint:fix": "eslint app.js tracer.js lib --fix"
  },
  "dependencies": {
-    "@aws-sdk/client-auto-scaling": "^3.549.0",
-    "@aws-sdk/client-sns": "^3.549.0",
-    "@jambonz/db-helpers": "^0.9.6",
+    "@aws-sdk/client-auto-scaling": "^3.360.0",
+    "@aws-sdk/client-sns": "^3.360.0",
+    "@jambonz/db-helpers": "^0.9.3",
    "@jambonz/http-health-check": "^0.0.1",
-    "@jambonz/mw-registrar": "^0.2.7",
-    "@jambonz/realtimedb-helpers": "^0.8.8",
-    "@jambonz/speech-utils": "^0.1.20",
-    "@jambonz/stats-collector": "^0.1.10",
-    "@jambonz/time-series": "^0.2.13",
-    "@jambonz/verb-specifications": "^0.0.91",
-    "@opentelemetry/api": "^1.8.0",
-    "@opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger": "^1.23.0",
-    "@opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-http": "^0.50.0",
-    "@opentelemetry/exporter-zipkin": "^1.23.0",
-    "@opentelemetry/instrumentation": "^0.50.0",
-    "@opentelemetry/resources": "^1.23.0",
-    "@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-base": "^1.23.0",
-    "@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-node": "^1.23.0",
-    "@opentelemetry/semantic-conventions": "^1.23.0",
+    "@jambonz/mw-registrar": "^0.2.4",
+    "@jambonz/realtimedb-helpers": "^0.8.7",
+    "@jambonz/speech-utils": "^0.0.33",
+    "@jambonz/stats-collector": "^0.1.9",
+    "@jambonz/time-series": "^0.2.8",
+    "@jambonz/verb-specifications": "^0.0.50",
+    "@opentelemetry/api": "^1.4.0",
+    "@opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger": "^1.9.0",
+    "@opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-http": "^0.35.0",
+    "@opentelemetry/exporter-zipkin": "^1.9.0",
+    "@opentelemetry/instrumentation": "^0.35.0",
+    "@opentelemetry/resources": "^1.9.0",
+    "@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-base": "^1.9.0",
+    "@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-node": "^1.9.0",
+    "@opentelemetry/semantic-conventions": "^1.9.0",
    "bent": "^7.3.12",
    "debug": "^4.3.4",
    "deepcopy": "^2.1.0",
-    "drachtio-fsmrf": "^3.0.45",
-    "drachtio-srf": "^4.5.35",
-    "express": "^4.19.2",
+    "drachtio-fsmrf": "^3.0.34",
+    "drachtio-srf": "^4.5.31",
+    "express": "^4.18.2",
    "express-validator": "^7.0.1",
-    "moment": "^2.30.1",
-    "parse-url": "^9.2.0",
-    "pino": "^8.20.0",
+    "ip": "^1.1.8",
+    "moment": "^2.29.4",
+    "parse-url": "^8.1.0",
+    "pino": "^8.8.0",
    "polly-ssml-split": "^0.1.0",
    "proxyquire": "^2.1.3",
-    "sdp-transform": "^2.14.2",
-    "short-uuid": "^5.1.0",
-    "sinon": "^17.0.1",
+    "sdp-transform": "^2.14.1",
+    "short-uuid": "^4.2.2",
+    "sinon": "^15.0.1",
    "to-snake-case": "^1.0.0",
-    "undici": "^6.20.0",
+    "undici": "^5.26.2",
    "uuid-random": "^1.3.2",
    "verify-aws-sns-signature": "^0.1.0",
-    "ws": "^8.18.0",
+    "ws": "^8.9.0",
    "xml2js": "^0.6.2"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "clear-module": "^4.1.2",
-    "eslint": "7.32.0",
-    "eslint-plugin-promise": "^6.1.1",
+    "eslint": "^7.32.0",
+    "eslint-plugin-promise": "^4.3.1",
    "nyc": "^15.1.0",
-    "tape": "^5.7.5"
+    "tape": "^5.6.1"
  },
  "optionalDependencies": {
-    "bufferutil": "^4.0.8",
-    "utf-8-validate": "^6.0.3"
+    "bufferutil": "^4.0.6",
+    "utf-8-validate": "^5.0.8"
  }
 }
--- a/test/create-call-test.js
+++ b/test/create-call-test.js
@@ -222,62 +222,3 @@ test('test create-call app_json', async(t) => {
    t.error(err);
  }
 });
-
-test('test create-call timeLimit', async(t) => {
-  clearModule.all();
-  const {srf, disconnect} = require('../app');
-
-  try {
-    await connect(srf);
-
-
-    // GIVEN
-    let from = 'create-call-app-json';
-    let account_sid = 'bb845d4b-83a9-4cde-a6e9-50f3743bab3f';
-
-    // Give UAS app time to come up
-    const p = sippUac('uas.xml', '172.38.0.10', from);
-    await waitFor(1000);
-
-    const startTime = Date.now();
-
-    const app_json = `[
-      {
-        "verb": "pause",
-        "length": 7
-      }
-    ]`;
-
-    const post = bent('http://127.0.0.1:3000/', 'POST', 'json', 201);
-    post('v1/createCall', {
-      'account_sid':account_sid,
-      "call_hook": {
-        "url": "http://127.0.0.1:3100/",
-        "method": "POST",
-        "username": "username",
-        "password": "password"
-      },
-      app_json,
-      "from": from,
-      "to": {
-        "type": "phone",
-        "number": "15583084809"
-      },
-      "timeLimit": 1,
-      "speech_recognizer_vendor": "google",
-      "speech_recognizer_language": "en"
-    });
-
-    //THEN
-    await p;
-    const endTime = Date.now();
-
-    t.ok(endTime - startTime < 2000, 'create-call: timeLimit is respected');
-
-    disconnect();
-  } catch (err) {
-    console.log(`error received: ${err}`);
-    disconnect();
-    t.error(err);
-  }
-});
--- a/test/db/jambones-sql.sql
+++ b/test/db/jambones-sql.sql
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 /* SQLEditor (MySQL (2))*/
-
 SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0;

 DROP TABLE IF EXISTS account_static_ips;
@@ -54,8 +53,6 @@ DROP TABLE IF EXISTS signup_history;

 DROP TABLE IF EXISTS smpp_addresses;

-DROP TABLE IF EXISTS google_custom_voices;
-
 DROP TABLE IF EXISTS speech_credentials;

 DROP TABLE IF EXISTS system_information;
@@ -139,9 +136,6 @@ account_sid CHAR(36) NOT NULL,
 is_active BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT 1,
 username VARCHAR(64),
 password VARCHAR(1024),
-allow_direct_app_calling BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT 1,
-allow_direct_queue_calling BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT 1,
-allow_direct_user_calling BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT 1,
 PRIMARY KEY (client_sid)
 );

@@ -344,23 +338,11 @@ label VARCHAR(64),
 PRIMARY KEY (speech_credential_sid)
 );

-CREATE TABLE google_custom_voices
-(
-google_custom_voice_sid CHAR(36) NOT NULL UNIQUE ,
-speech_credential_sid CHAR(36) NOT NULL,
-model VARCHAR(512) NOT NULL,
-reported_usage ENUM('REPORTED_USAGE_UNSPECIFIED','REALTIME','OFFLINE') DEFAULT 'REALTIME',
-name VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL,
-PRIMARY KEY (google_custom_voice_sid)
-);
-
 CREATE TABLE system_information
 (
 domain_name VARCHAR(255),
 sip_domain_name VARCHAR(255),
-monitoring_domain_name VARCHAR(255),
-private_network_cidr VARCHAR(8192),
-log_level ENUM('info', 'debug') NOT NULL DEFAULT 'info'
+monitoring_domain_name VARCHAR(255)
 );

 CREATE TABLE users
@@ -455,14 +437,11 @@ CREATE TABLE sip_gateways
 sip_gateway_sid CHAR(36),
 ipv4 VARCHAR(128) NOT NULL COMMENT 'ip address or DNS name of the gateway.  For gateways providing inbound calling service, ip address is required.',
 netmask INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 32,
-port INTEGER COMMENT 'sip signaling port',
+port INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 5060 COMMENT 'sip signaling port',
 inbound BOOLEAN NOT NULL COMMENT 'if true, whitelist this IP to allow inbound calls from the gateway',
 outbound BOOLEAN NOT NULL COMMENT 'if true, include in least-cost routing when placing calls to the PSTN',
 voip_carrier_sid CHAR(36) NOT NULL,
 is_active BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT 1,
-send_options_ping BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
-use_sips_scheme BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
-pad_crypto BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
 protocol ENUM('udp','tcp','tls', 'tls/srtp') DEFAULT 'udp' COMMENT 'Outbound call protocol',
 PRIMARY KEY (sip_gateway_sid)
 ) COMMENT='A whitelisted sip gateway used for origination/termination';
@@ -499,19 +478,11 @@ messaging_hook_sid CHAR(36) COMMENT 'webhook to call for inbound SMS/MMS ',
 app_json TEXT,
 speech_synthesis_vendor VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'google',
 speech_synthesis_language VARCHAR(12) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'en-US',
-speech_synthesis_voice VARCHAR(256),
+speech_synthesis_voice VARCHAR(64),
 speech_synthesis_label VARCHAR(64),
 speech_recognizer_vendor VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'google',
 speech_recognizer_language VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'en-US',
 speech_recognizer_label VARCHAR(64),
-use_for_fallback_speech BOOLEAN DEFAULT false,
-fallback_speech_synthesis_vendor VARCHAR(64),
-fallback_speech_synthesis_language VARCHAR(12),
-fallback_speech_synthesis_voice VARCHAR(256),
-fallback_speech_synthesis_label VARCHAR(64),
-fallback_speech_recognizer_vendor VARCHAR(64),
-fallback_speech_recognizer_language VARCHAR(64),
-fallback_speech_recognizer_label VARCHAR(64),
 created_at DATETIME NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
 record_all_calls BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT false,
 PRIMARY KEY (application_sid)
@@ -554,7 +525,6 @@ siprec_hook_sid CHAR(36),
 record_all_calls BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT false,
 record_format VARCHAR(16) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'mp3',
 bucket_credential VARCHAR(8192) COMMENT 'credential used to authenticate with storage service',
-enable_debug_log BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT false,
 PRIMARY KEY (account_sid)
 ) COMMENT='An enterprise that uses the platform for comm services';

@@ -649,10 +619,6 @@ ALTER TABLE speech_credentials ADD FOREIGN KEY service_provider_sid_idxfk_5 (ser
 CREATE INDEX account_sid_idx ON speech_credentials (account_sid);
 ALTER TABLE speech_credentials ADD FOREIGN KEY account_sid_idxfk_8 (account_sid) REFERENCES accounts (account_sid);

-CREATE INDEX google_custom_voice_sid_idx ON google_custom_voices (google_custom_voice_sid);
-CREATE INDEX speech_credential_sid_idx ON google_custom_voices (speech_credential_sid);
-ALTER TABLE google_custom_voices ADD FOREIGN KEY speech_credential_sid_idxfk (speech_credential_sid) REFERENCES speech_credentials (speech_credential_sid) ON DELETE CASCADE;
-
 CREATE INDEX user_sid_idx ON users (user_sid);
 CREATE INDEX email_idx ON users (email);
 CREATE INDEX phone_idx ON users (phone);
@@ -738,5 +704,4 @@ ALTER TABLE accounts ADD FOREIGN KEY queue_event_hook_sid_idxfk (queue_event_hoo
 ALTER TABLE accounts ADD FOREIGN KEY device_calling_application_sid_idxfk (device_calling_application_sid) REFERENCES applications (application_sid);

 ALTER TABLE accounts ADD FOREIGN KEY siprec_hook_sid_idxfk (siprec_hook_sid) REFERENCES applications (application_sid);
-
-SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=1;
+SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=1;
--- a/test/docker-compose-testbed.yaml
+++ b/test/docker-compose-testbed.yaml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ services:
        ipv4_address: 172.38.0.7

  drachtio:
-    image: drachtio/drachtio-server:0.8.25-rc8
+    image: drachtio/drachtio-server:0.8.24
    restart: always
    command: drachtio --contact "sip:*;transport=udp" --mtu 4096 --address 0.0.0.0 --port 9022
    ports:
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ services:
        condition: service_healthy

  freeswitch:
-    image: drachtio/drachtio-freeswitch-mrf:latest
+    image: drachtio/drachtio-freeswitch-mrf:0.6.1
    restart: always
    command: freeswitch --rtp-range-start 20000 --rtp-range-end 20100
    environment:
--- a/test/transcribe-tests.js
+++ b/test/transcribe-tests.js
@@ -347,7 +347,8 @@ test('\'transcribe\' test - deepgram config options altLanguages', async(t) => {
            "en-US"
          ],
          "deepgramOptions": {
-            "model": "nova-2",
+            "model": "2-ea",
+            "tier": "nova",
            "numerals": true,
            "ner": true,
            "vadTurnoff": 10,
@@ -407,7 +408,8 @@ test('\'transcribe\' test - deepgram config options altLanguages', async(t) => {
            "en-US"
          ],
          "deepgramOptions": {
-            "model": "nova-2",
+            "model": "2-ea",
+            "tier": "nova",
            "numerals": true,
            "ner": true,
            "vadTurnoff": 10,