diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5ee809beb..480bfa771 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -135,6 +135,10 @@ Croatian, Hungarian, Malay, Norwegian, Nynorsk, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, and
           text = match.text # instead of match.content
        ```
 
+  - `TextFrame` now includes the field `append_to_context` to support setting whether or not the
+    encompassing text should be added to the LLM context (by the LLM assistant aggregator). It
+    defaults to `True`.
+
 ### Deprecated
 
 - The `api_key` parameter in `GeminiTTSService` is deprecated. Use
diff --git a/src/pipecat/frames/frames.py b/src/pipecat/frames/frames.py
index ddb4e5a14..d703706cf 100644
--- a/src/pipecat/frames/frames.py
+++ b/src/pipecat/frames/frames.py
@@ -337,11 +337,14 @@ class TextFrame(DataFrame):
     # mandatory fields of theirs to have defaults to preserve
     # non-default-before-default argument order)
     includes_inter_frame_spaces: bool = field(init=False)
+    # Whether this text frame should be appended to the LLM context.
+    append_to_context: bool = field(init=False)
 
     def __post_init__(self):
         super().__post_init__()
         self.skip_tts = False
         self.includes_inter_frame_spaces = False
+        self.append_to_context = True
 
     def __str__(self):
         pts = format_pts(self.pts)
diff --git a/src/pipecat/processors/aggregators/llm_response.py b/src/pipecat/processors/aggregators/llm_response.py
index afc091d5a..ec13b643f 100644
--- a/src/pipecat/processors/aggregators/llm_response.py
+++ b/src/pipecat/processors/aggregators/llm_response.py
@@ -1001,7 +1001,7 @@ class LLMAssistantContextAggregator(LLMContextResponseAggregator):
         await self.push_aggregation()
 
     async def _handle_text(self, frame: TextFrame):
-        if not self._started:
+        if not self._started or not frame.append_to_context:
             return
 
         if self._params.expect_stripped_words:
diff --git a/src/pipecat/processors/aggregators/llm_response_universal.py b/src/pipecat/processors/aggregators/llm_response_universal.py
index 87974bed2..69fc649ce 100644
--- a/src/pipecat/processors/aggregators/llm_response_universal.py
+++ b/src/pipecat/processors/aggregators/llm_response_universal.py
@@ -811,7 +811,7 @@ class LLMAssistantAggregator(LLMContextAggregator):
         await self.push_aggregation()
 
     async def _handle_text(self, frame: TextFrame):
-        if not self._started:
+        if not self._started or not frame.append_to_context:
             return
 
         # Make sure we really have text (spaces count, too!)