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-'@smooai/chat-widget': minor
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-Voice: speak-and-read mode + seamless voice→text continuity (SMOODEV-2674). A speaker toggle beside the mic lets visitors turn agent speech off — sessions start STT-only (`tts:false` on the browser-voice start frame; the server skips TTS entirely) while replies still arrive as chat bubbles. New `voice.tts` config sets the default. Starting voice now connects the text session first, so a voice-first visitor lands in a real conversation that continues seamlessly when they switch back to typing.
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 # Changelog
 
+## 0.16.0
+
+### Minor Changes
+
+- 6436692: Voice: speak-and-read mode + seamless voice→text continuity (SMOODEV-2674). A speaker toggle beside the mic lets visitors turn agent speech off — sessions start STT-only (`tts:false` on the browser-voice start frame; the server skips TTS entirely) while replies still arrive as chat bubbles. New `voice.tts` config sets the default. Starting voice now connects the text session first, so a voice-first visitor lands in a real conversation that continues seamlessly when they switch back to typing.
+
 ## 0.15.2
 
 ### Patch Changes
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 {
     "name": "@smooai/chat-widget",
-    "version": "0.15.2",
+    "version": "0.16.0",
     "description": "Embeddable AI chat as a framework-light web component — the Aurora Glass design, streaming replies, grounded sources, and per-brand theming. Speaks the smooth-operator WebSocket protocol.",
     "license": "MIT",
     "author": "SmooAI",