diff --git a/changelog/4076.fixed.md b/changelog/4076.fixed.md
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@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fixed SimliVideoService forwarding near-silent audio frames (quantization noise) as TTSAudioRawFrame. Added RMS threshold check to skip frames below 1.0, which is well above the observed noise floor (~0.41) but far below real speech. Without this fix - BotStoppedSpeaking will never trigger.
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diff --git a/src/pipecat/services/simli/video.py b/src/pipecat/services/simli/video.py
index f994ef0dc3..9aa56bef90 100644
--- a/src/pipecat/services/simli/video.py
+++ b/src/pipecat/services/simli/video.py
@@ -261,8 +261,9 @@ async def _consume_and_process_audio(self):
             resampled_frames = self._pipecat_resampler.resample(audio_frame)
             for resampled_frame in resampled_frames:
                 audio_array = resampled_frame.to_ndarray()
-                # Only push frame is there is audio (e.g. not silence)
-                if audio_array.any():
+                # Simli pushes very low volume (total silence for practical purposes) frames when the avatar is not speaking, so we can skip otherwise BotStoppedSpeaking will never trigger.
+                rms = np.sqrt(np.mean(audio_array.astype(np.float32) ** 2))
+                if rms >= 1.0:
                     await self.push_frame(
                         TTSAudioRawFrame(
                             audio=audio_array.tobytes(),