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+- Added `LLMTurnCompletionUserTurnStopStrategy` in `pipecat.turns.user_stop`. When installed, the strategy gates `on_user_turn_stopped` on a `UserTurnCompletedFrame` (a new fieldless system frame emitted by any component that can judge turn completeness — e.g. the `UserTurnCompletionLLMServiceMixin` on `✓`). A `finalization_timeout` provides a safety net if no completion frame ever arrives.
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+- Added `deferred(strategy)` and `DeferredUserTurnStopStrategy` in `pipecat.turns.user_stop`. Wraps a stop strategy so it fires only the inference-triggered event and suppresses `on_user_turn_stopped`, leaving finalization to another strategy in the chain such as `LLMTurnCompletionUserTurnStopStrategy`.
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+- Added `llm_completion_user_turn_stop_strategies()` in `pipecat.turns.user_turn_strategies` — a one-call helper that pairs default (or user-supplied) stop strategies, each wrapped with `deferred(...)`, with `LLMTurnCompletionUserTurnStopStrategy`. Common case: `stop=llm_completion_user_turn_stop_strategies()`.
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+- Added `ExternalUserTurnCompletionStopStrategy` in `pipecat.turns.user_stop` — a generic stop strategy that finalizes the user turn whenever a `UserTurnCompletedFrame` arrives, regardless of which component produced it. `LLMTurnCompletionUserTurnStopStrategy` now extends this base; future producers (Flux, custom end-of-turn classifiers, etc.) can use the base directly or subclass it to add producer-specific setup.
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+- Added `on_user_turn_inference_triggered`, a new event on the user turn controller, processor, aggregator and stop strategies that fires when a strategy has enough signal to start LLM inference. By default it fires together with `on_user_turn_stopped`; a gating strategy can fire only the inference-triggered event and defer finalization to a peer.
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+- Deprecated `LLMUserAggregatorParams.filter_incomplete_user_turns`. Add `LLMTurnCompletionUserTurnStopStrategy` to `user_turn_strategies.stop` instead (typically via `llm_completion_user_turn_stop_strategies()`). Setting the legacy flag still works for one release: the aggregator emits a `DeprecationWarning`, wraps existing stop strategies with `deferred(...)`, and appends the new finalizer strategy.
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+- Fixed `on_user_turn_stopped` firing prematurely when `filter_incomplete_user_turns` was enabled. The event now fires only after the LLM confirms the user turn is complete (`✓`); previously the smart-turn detector's tentative stop was bubbling up before the LLM had a chance to veto it, causing observers, transcript appenders and UI indicators to receive an early — and sometimes duplicated — signal.