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+- Fixed dropped audio in streaming TTS services whose wire protocol doesn't echo `context_id` back on incoming audio (Sarvam, Smallest, Soniox, Inworld, and others). Previously, audio that arrived between contexts or at the very start of a turn was tagged with `context_id=None` and silently dropped with an "unable to append audio to context: no context ID provided" debug log. `TTSService.get_active_audio_context_id()` now falls back to the synthesis-side `_turn_context_id` when the playback cursor isn't set yet.