Ok, Nabu issues

I set up my ESP32 ATOM m5 device to support Wake Words in Home Assistant.

It seems to work fine (once afetr I plug in the device) ... but then the device remains in Listening Mode (flashing Blue Lights) indefinitely not allowing me to make any additional commands.

Moreover, the device is not responding through the speaker at all ... so maybe theres an error in text to speach (i.e. returning the success voice) thats locking things up?

I've tried 'fast-whisperer' and 'Home Assistant Cloud'

Dashboard show that "Assit In Progress' as On when its executing my first command and then moves to Assist In Progress 'Off' as expected.

I have tried the various settings of 'Finished Speaking Detection' with all the same results.

Help?