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+- Added fine-grained server-side VAD tuning options to `SarvamSTTService.Settings` for the `saaras:v3` model, including speech thresholds, frame-count controls, pre-speech padding, interruption sensitivity, and initial-frame skipping.
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+- `SarvamSTTService` now uses `saaras:v3` as its default model instead of `saarika:v2.5`. Applications that relied on the previous default should set `settings=SarvamSTTService.Settings(model="saarika:v2.5")` explicitly.
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