diff --git a/src/apps/call/Telephone.tsx b/src/apps/call/Telephone.tsx
index e964ab8c0..a762f5bf0 100644
--- a/src/apps/call/Telephone.tsx
+++ b/src/apps/call/Telephone.tsx
@@ -224,8 +224,9 @@ export function Telephone(props: {
     responseAbortController.current = new AbortController();
     let finalText = '';
     let error: any | null = null;
-    llmStreamingChatGenerate(chatLLMId, callPrompt, null, null, responseAbortController.current.signal, (updatedMessage: Partial<DMessage>) => {
-      const text = updatedMessage.text?.trim();
+    setPersonaTextInterim('💭...');
+    llmStreamingChatGenerate(chatLLMId, callPrompt, null, null, responseAbortController.current.signal, ({ textSoFar }) => {
+      const text = textSoFar?.trim();
       if (text) {
         finalText = text;
         setPersonaTextInterim(text);
@@ -354,7 +355,8 @@ export function Telephone(props: {
                 text={message.text}
                 variant={message.role === 'assistant' ? 'solid' : 'soft'}
                 color={message.role === 'assistant' ? 'neutral' : 'primary'}
-                role={message.role} />,
+                role={message.role}
+              />,
             )}
 
             {/* Persona streaming text... */}
diff --git a/src/apps/chat/editors/chat-stream.ts b/src/apps/chat/editors/chat-stream.ts
index 3501f4647..e00ca7950 100644
--- a/src/apps/chat/editors/chat-stream.ts
+++ b/src/apps/chat/editors/chat-stream.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-import { DLLMId } from '~/modules/llms/store-llms';
+import type { DLLMId } from '~/modules/llms/store-llms';
+import type { StreamingClientUpdate } from '~/modules/llms/vendors/unifiedStreamingClient';
 import { SystemPurposeId } from '../../../data';
 import { autoSuggestions } from '~/modules/aifn/autosuggestions/autoSuggestions';
 import { conversationAutoTitle } from '~/modules/aifn/autotitle/autoTitle';
@@ -67,7 +68,6 @@ async function streamAssistantMessage(
 
   const messages = history.map(({ role, text }) => ({ role, content: text }));
 
-  const incrementalAnswer: Partial<DMessage> = { text: '' };
 
   // Throttling setup
   let lastCallTime = 0;
@@ -83,33 +83,34 @@ async function streamAssistantMessage(
     }
   }
 
+  const incrementalAnswer: Partial<DMessage> = { text: '' };
+
   try {
-    await llmStreamingChatGenerate(llmId, messages, null, null, abortSignal,
-      ({ originLLM, textSoFar, typing }) => {
+    await llmStreamingChatGenerate(llmId, messages, null, null, abortSignal, (update: StreamingClientUpdate) => {
+      const textSoFar = update.textSoFar;
 
-        // grow the incremental message
-        if (originLLM) incrementalAnswer.originLLM = originLLM;
-        if (textSoFar) incrementalAnswer.text = textSoFar;
-        if (typing !== undefined) incrementalAnswer.typing = typing;
+      // grow the incremental message
+      if (update.originLLM) incrementalAnswer.originLLM = update.originLLM;
+      if (textSoFar) incrementalAnswer.text = textSoFar;
+      if (update.typing !== undefined) incrementalAnswer.typing = update.typing;
 
-        // Update the data store, with optional max-frequency throttling (e.g. OpenAI is downsamped 50 -> 12Hz)
-        // This can be toggled from the settings
-        throttledEditMessage(incrementalAnswer);
+      // Update the data store, with optional max-frequency throttling (e.g. OpenAI is downsamped 50 -> 12Hz)
+      // This can be toggled from the settings
+      throttledEditMessage(incrementalAnswer);
 
-        // 📢 TTS: first-line
-        if (textSoFar && autoSpeak === 'firstLine' && !spokenLine) {
-          let cutPoint = textSoFar.lastIndexOf('\n');
-          if (cutPoint < 0)
-            cutPoint = textSoFar.lastIndexOf('. ');
-          if (cutPoint > 100 && cutPoint < 400) {
-            spokenLine = true;
-            const firstParagraph = textSoFar.substring(0, cutPoint);
-            // fire/forget: we don't want to stall this loop
-            void speakText(firstParagraph);
-          }
+      // 📢 TTS: first-line
+      if (textSoFar && autoSpeak === 'firstLine' && !spokenLine) {
+        let cutPoint = textSoFar.lastIndexOf('\n');
+        if (cutPoint < 0)
+          cutPoint = textSoFar.lastIndexOf('. ');
+        if (cutPoint > 100 && cutPoint < 400) {
+          spokenLine = true;
+          const firstParagraph = textSoFar.substring(0, cutPoint);
+          // fire/forget: we don't want to stall this loop
+          void speakText(firstParagraph);
         }
-      },
-    );
+      }
+    });
   } catch (error: any) {
     if (error?.name !== 'AbortError') {
       console.error('Fetch request error:', error);
diff --git a/src/modules/aifn/useLLMChain.ts b/src/modules/aifn/useLLMChain.ts
index 35253609b..091ca03fd 100644
--- a/src/modules/aifn/useLLMChain.ts
+++ b/src/modules/aifn/useLLMChain.ts
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ export function useLLMChain(steps: LLMChainStep[], llmId: DLLMId | undefined, ch
 
     // LLM call (streaming, cancelable)
     llmStreamingChatGenerate(llmId, llmChatInput, null, null, stepAbortController.signal,
-      ({textSoFar}) => {
+      ({ textSoFar }) => {
         textSoFar && setChainStepInterimText(interimText = textSoFar);
       })
       .then(() => {