Hermes Agent's language model and speech recognition are independent pipelines. MiMo can continue to understand, reason, and answer, while a LAN ASR service converts recordings to text before MiMo sees them.

The first deployment used whisper.cpp + CT-Punc. After Paraformer and SenseVoice A/B testing, SenseVoice became the current Hermes backend, while Paraformer remains available for explicit terminology correction and rollback.