diff --git a/src/io/BridgeWakeGate.hpp b/src/io/BridgeWakeGate.hpp
index d0aa434..5f761b6 100644
--- a/src/io/BridgeWakeGate.hpp
+++ b/src/io/BridgeWakeGate.hpp
@@ -12,7 +12,13 @@ namespace stackchan {
 #endif
 
 constexpr uint32_t kBridgeWakeGateOpenMs = 6000;
-constexpr uint32_t kBridgeWakeGateMaxTurnMs = 12000;
+// Hard privacy bound on one streamed turn. This must stay strictly greater than
+// the longest capture the firmware can take, or the guard fires while the
+// microphone is still recording and the tail of the utterance is streamed into a
+// turn that has already been closed. It used to be 12000, exactly equal to the
+// voice-activity endpoint's own ceiling, so the two raced. main.cpp holds a
+// static_assert tying this to the capture ceiling so they cannot drift apart.
+constexpr uint32_t kBridgeWakeGateMaxTurnMs = 15000;
 constexpr size_t kBridgeWakeGateErrorMax = kBridgeErrorMax;
 
 struct BridgeWakeGateConfig {
diff --git a/src/main.cpp b/src/main.cpp
index b16c9d9..97b43af 100644
--- a/src/main.cpp
+++ b/src/main.cpp
@@ -990,6 +990,15 @@ constexpr uint32_t kWakeMwwCueCompletionTimeoutMs = 120;
 // uplink limit. Was 96 (9.6 s), and the endpoint's own 4.8 s cap fired first,
 // which is what truncated longer sentences.
 constexpr uint16_t kWakeMwwDedicatedCaptureChunks = 130;
+// One chunk is STACKCHAN_MWW_WAKE_UPLINK_CHUNK_SAMPLES at the capture rate.
+constexpr uint32_t kWakeMwwDedicatedCaptureCeilingMs =
+    (static_cast<uint32_t>(kWakeMwwDedicatedCaptureChunks) *
+     STACKCHAN_MWW_WAKE_UPLINK_CHUNK_SAMPLES * 1000u) /
+    STACKCHAN_MWW_WAKE_CAPTURE_SAMPLE_RATE;
+// The wake gate's privacy guard must outlast any capture we can take, otherwise
+// it closes the turn mid-utterance and the remaining chunks are rejected.
+static_assert(kWakeMwwDedicatedCaptureCeilingMs < kBridgeWakeGateMaxTurnMs,
+              "wake gate max turn must exceed the dedicated capture ceiling");
 RobotEvent gWakeMwwPendingCaptureEvent {};
 bool gWakeMwwPendingCaptureEventReady = false;
 bool gWakeMwwPendingCaptureIsConversationReply = false;
@@ -4780,8 +4789,29 @@ void serviceDedicatedWakeCaptureChunk() {
     gWakeSrProbe.lastRecordMs = millis();
 
     if (gWakeMwwDedicatedCapture.endpoint.telemetry().enabled) {
+      const uint32_t speechAtBefore =
+          gWakeMwwDedicatedCapture.endpoint.telemetry().lastSpeechAtMs;
       endpointReason = gWakeMwwDedicatedCapture.endpoint.process(
           monoBuf, kMonoSamples, gWakeSrProbe.lastRecordMs);
+      // Tell the wake gate that speech is still happening.
+      //
+      // The gate closes gateOpenMs after the last speech it heard about, and it
+      // force-completes the active turn when it does. It normally learns this
+      // from bridge UserSpeaking events, which arrive only after host STT. During
+      // our own dedicated capture nothing told it, so the gate closed 6 s after
+      // the wake word and sent utterance_end while the microphone was still
+      // recording. Every chunk after that hit an uplink with no active turn,
+      // which is where the audio_uplink_not_active errors came from.
+      //
+      // Renewing only on real speech preserves the privacy semantics: the gate
+      // still closes gateOpenMs after the speaker actually stops.
+      if (gWakeMwwDedicatedCapture.endpoint.telemetry().lastSpeechAtMs != speechAtBefore) {
+        RobotEvent speakingEvent;
+        speakingEvent.type = EventType::UserSpeaking;
+        speakingEvent.timestampMs = gWakeSrProbe.lastRecordMs;
+        speakingEvent.strength = 1.0f;
+        gBridgeWakeGate.applyEvent(speakingEvent, gWakeSrProbe.lastRecordMs);
+      }
     }
 
     if (submitDedicatedWakeCaptureChunk(
diff --git a/test/test_native_logic/test_main.cpp b/test/test_native_logic/test_main.cpp
index 93e94bb..d50940c 100644
--- a/test/test_native_logic/test_main.cpp
+++ b/test/test_native_logic/test_main.cpp
@@ -7130,6 +7130,78 @@ void test_bridge_wake_gate_can_start_uplink_turn_from_speech_when_enabled() {
   TEST_ASSERT_NOT_NULL(std::strstr(decodedStart, "\"seq\":52"));
 }
 
+void test_bridge_wake_gate_survives_a_long_utterance() {
+  BridgeClient bridge;
+  FakeBridgeNetworkSocket socket;
+  BridgeNetworkSession session;
+  connectBridgeNetworkSession(bridge, socket, session, 1220);
+
+  BridgeAudioUplinkConfig uplinkConfig;
+  uplinkConfig.enabled = true;
+  BridgeAudioUplink uplink;
+  TEST_ASSERT_TRUE(uplink.begin(uplinkConfig, &session));
+
+  // Production values, not shortened ones: this is about the real relationship
+  // between the gate window and how long a capture can run.
+  BridgeWakeGateConfig gateConfig;
+  BridgeWakeGate gate;
+  TEST_ASSERT_TRUE(gate.begin(gateConfig, &uplink));
+
+  RobotEvent wake;
+  wake.type = EventType::WakeWord;
+  gate.applyEvent(wake, 1000);
+  TEST_ASSERT_TRUE(gate.telemetry().turnActive);
+  // Drain the utterance_start frame, as the real session loop does. Without this
+  // the outgoing queue fills and the closing utterance_end cannot be sent.
+  session.update(1005);
+  socket.clearOutgoing();
+
+  // Ten seconds of continuous speech. The firmware renews the gate from its own
+  // voice-activity endpoint while it hears speech; without that the gate closed
+  // gateOpenMs after the wake word and completed the turn mid-utterance, and the
+  // remaining chunks were rejected by an uplink with no active turn.
+  const uint32_t speechEndsMs = 11000;
+  for (uint32_t nowMs = 1100; nowMs <= speechEndsMs; nowMs += 100) {
+    RobotEvent speaking;
+    speaking.type = EventType::UserSpeaking;
+    speaking.timestampMs = nowMs;
+    gate.applyEvent(speaking, nowMs);
+    gate.update(nowMs);
+    session.update(nowMs);
+    socket.clearOutgoing();
+    TEST_ASSERT_TRUE(gate.telemetry().gateOpen);
+    TEST_ASSERT_TRUE(gate.telemetry().turnActive);
+  }
+
+  // The turn is still the same one; it was never cut and restarted.
+  TEST_ASSERT_EQUAL_UINT32(1, gate.telemetry().turnsStarted);
+  TEST_ASSERT_EQUAL_UINT32(0, gate.telemetry().turnsCompleted);
+
+  // Renewal must not make streaming unbounded. The privacy guard still caps the
+  // turn at maxTurnMs from when it started, however long the speaker keeps
+  // going, and that bound is the whole reason the guard exists.
+  const uint32_t turnStartedMs = 1000;
+  gate.update(turnStartedMs + kBridgeWakeGateMaxTurnMs - 100);
+  TEST_ASSERT_TRUE(gate.telemetry().gateOpen);
+  TEST_ASSERT_TRUE(gate.telemetry().turnActive);
+  gate.update(turnStartedMs + kBridgeWakeGateMaxTurnMs);
+  TEST_ASSERT_FALSE(gate.telemetry().gateOpen);
+  TEST_ASSERT_FALSE(gate.telemetry().turnActive);
+  TEST_ASSERT_EQUAL_UINT32(1, gate.telemetry().turnsCompleted);
+}
+
+void test_bridge_wake_gate_max_turn_outlasts_the_capture_ceiling() {
+  // The privacy guard must be the last thing to fire, after the capture has
+  // already ended on its own. When these were equal they raced, and the guard
+  // could close the turn while the microphone was still recording.
+  const uint32_t captureCeilingMs = 13000;  // 130 chunks x 100 ms in main.cpp
+  TEST_ASSERT_GREATER_THAN_UINT32(captureCeilingMs, kBridgeWakeGateMaxTurnMs);
+
+  // And the endpoint's own ceiling ends capture before the chunk ceiling does.
+  VoiceActivityEndpointConfig endpointConfig;
+  TEST_ASSERT_LESS_THAN_UINT32(captureCeilingMs, endpointConfig.maximumCaptureMs);
+}
+
 void test_bridge_wake_gate_renews_on_speech_and_expires() {
   BridgeClient bridge;
   FakeBridgeNetworkSocket socket;
@@ -8271,6 +8343,8 @@ int main() {
   RUN_TEST(test_bridge_wake_gate_starts_and_completes_uplink_turn);
   RUN_TEST(test_bridge_wake_gate_can_start_uplink_turn_from_speech_when_enabled);
   RUN_TEST(test_bridge_wake_gate_renews_on_speech_and_expires);
+  RUN_TEST(test_bridge_wake_gate_survives_a_long_utterance);
+  RUN_TEST(test_bridge_wake_gate_max_turn_outlasts_the_capture_ceiling);
   RUN_TEST(test_bridge_network_session_reconnects_after_socket_disconnect);
   RUN_TEST(test_bridge_network_session_clears_stale_error_after_reconnect_handshake);
   RUN_TEST(test_bridge_wifi_provisioner_disabled_default_is_ready_not_configured);