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+- **feat(modality bridge):** Transcribe chat audio for text-only models through the existing speech-to-text providers, with configurable limits, caching, runtime stats, and a dashboard self-test ([#9807](https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute/pull/9807))