diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5bcb83279..c90e90984 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -81,6 +81,13 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Fixed
 
+- Fixed a `DailyTransport` issue that would result in an unhandled
+  `concurrent.futures.CancelledError` when a future is cancelled.
+
+- Fixed a `RivaSTTService` issue that would result in an unhandled
+  `concurrent.futures.CancelledError` when a future is cancelled when reading
+  from the audio chunks from the incoming audio stream.
+
 - Fixed an issue in the `BaseOutputTransport`, mainly reproducible with
   `FastAPIWebsocketOutputTransport` when the audio mixer was enabled, where the
   loop could consume 100% CPU by continuously returning without delay, preventing
diff --git a/src/pipecat/services/riva/stt.py b/src/pipecat/services/riva/stt.py
index 7d9e8743d..be90e8732 100644
--- a/src/pipecat/services/riva/stt.py
+++ b/src/pipecat/services/riva/stt.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 """NVIDIA Riva Speech-to-Text service implementations for real-time and batch transcription."""
 
 import asyncio
+from concurrent.futures import CancelledError as FuturesCancelledError
 from typing import AsyncGenerator, List, Mapping, Optional
 
 from loguru import logger
@@ -167,7 +168,7 @@ class RivaSTTService(STTService):
 
         self._asr_service = riva.client.ASRService(auth)
 
-        self._queue = asyncio.Queue()
+        self._queue = None
         self._config = None
         self._thread_task = None
         self._response_task = None
@@ -238,6 +239,7 @@ class RivaSTTService(STTService):
         riva.client.add_custom_configuration_to_config(config, self._custom_configuration)
 
         self._config = config
+        self._queue = WatchdogQueue(self.task_manager)
 
         if not self._thread_task:
             self._thread_task = self.create_task(self._thread_task_handler())
@@ -366,8 +368,12 @@ class RivaSTTService(STTService):
         """
         if not self._thread_running:
             raise StopIteration
-        future = asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe(self._queue.get(), self.get_event_loop())
-        return future.result()
+
+        try:
+            future = asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe(self._queue.get(), self.get_event_loop())
+            return future.result()
+        except FuturesCancelledError:
+            raise StopIteration
 
     def __iter__(self):
         """Return iterator for audio chunk processing.
diff --git a/src/pipecat/transports/services/daily.py b/src/pipecat/transports/services/daily.py
index 1ad443cb5..daf879be7 100644
--- a/src/pipecat/transports/services/daily.py
+++ b/src/pipecat/transports/services/daily.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ real-time communication features.
 
 import asyncio
 import time
+from concurrent.futures import CancelledError as FuturesCancelledError
 from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from typing import Any, Awaitable, Callable, Dict, Mapping, Optional
@@ -1320,10 +1321,13 @@ class DailyTransportClient(EventHandler):
 
     def _call_async_callback(self, queue: asyncio.Queue, callback, *args):
         """Queue a callback for async execution on the event loop."""
-        future = asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe(
-            queue.put((callback, *args)), self._get_event_loop()
-        )
-        future.result()
+        try:
+            future = asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe(
+                queue.put((callback, *args)), self._get_event_loop()
+            )
+            future.result()
+        except FuturesCancelledError:
+            pass
 
     async def _callback_task_handler(self, queue: asyncio.Queue):
         """Handle queued callbacks from the specified queue."""