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+- Added `max_endpoint_delay_ms` to `SonioxSTTService.Settings`, controlling the maximum delay (500-3000 ms) before endpoint detection finalizes a turn.
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+- `SonioxSTTService` now applies settings updates (e.g. via `STTUpdateSettingsFrame`) using a graceful reconnect instead of a hard disconnect/reconnect, preserving the service's reconnect retry behavior.
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+- Removed the unsupported Georgian (`Language.KA`) language mapping from `SonioxSTTService`.