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From: Mark Backman <mark@daily.co>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:14:11 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add changelog entries for PR #3730

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+- Added keepalive support to `SarvamSTTService` to prevent idle connection timeouts (e.g. when used behind a `ServiceSwitcher`).
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+- Moved STT keepalive mechanism from `WebsocketSTTService` to the `STTService` base class, allowing any STT service (not just websocket-based ones) to use idle-connection keepalive via the `keepalive_timeout` and `keepalive_interval` parameters.