From 4a1f4557910d23aaa6b461a36b938304730794e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Etan Joseph Heyman <etan@heyman.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 01:09:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(speech): removing filler words no longer joins paragraphs

Co-Authored-By: GPT-6.1 Sol <noreply@openai.com>
---
 apps/server/src/speech/SpeechService.test.ts | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 apps/server/src/speech/fillerWords.ts        |  5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/apps/server/src/speech/SpeechService.test.ts b/apps/server/src/speech/SpeechService.test.ts
index 41db47f0376a4..4d05d39786240 100644
--- a/apps/server/src/speech/SpeechService.test.ts
+++ b/apps/server/src/speech/SpeechService.test.ts
@@ -531,6 +531,24 @@ it.effect("unloads after the chosen idle period and reloads on the next recordin
 );
 
 it.effect.each([
+  {
+    cue: undefined,
+    remove: true,
+    text: "First paragraph.\n\nSecond paragraph.",
+    expected: "First paragraph.\n\nSecond paragraph.",
+  },
+  {
+    cue: undefined,
+    remove: true,
+    text: "First um\n\nuh Second.",
+    expected: "First\n\nSecond.",
+  },
+  {
+    cue: undefined,
+    remove: true,
+    text: "First um\r\n\r\nuh Second.",
+    expected: "First\r\n\r\nSecond.",
+  },
   { cue: "um", remove: true, text: "Make it red, um, blue.", expected: "Make it red, um, blue." },
   {
     cue: "uh no",
diff --git a/apps/server/src/speech/fillerWords.ts b/apps/server/src/speech/fillerWords.ts
index 5061341833c06..e939e275fbc0e 100644
--- a/apps/server/src/speech/fillerWords.ts
+++ b/apps/server/src/speech/fillerWords.ts
@@ -38,5 +38,8 @@ export function removeSpeechFillerWords(
     "giu",
   );
   const filtered = text.replace(pattern, (_match, cue: string | undefined) => cue ?? "");
-  return filtered.replace(/\s{2,}/g, " ").trim();
+  return filtered
+    .replace(/[^\S\r\n]{2,}/g, " ")
+    .replace(/[^\S\r\n]*([\r\n])[^\S\r\n]*/g, "$1")
+    .trim();
 }