diff --git a/web/zebra-spaces.html b/web/zebra-spaces.html
index a8f7798..e02f966 100644
--- a/web/zebra-spaces.html
+++ b/web/zebra-spaces.html
@@ -2336,7 +2336,24 @@ async function handleWhisperChunk(uuid, chunk){
if (WHISPER_HALLUCINATIONS.has(norm)) return;
if (_lastTranscriptByUuid.get(uuid) === txt) return;
_lastTranscriptByUuid.set(uuid, txt);
- appendTranscriptLine(uuid, txt);
+ /* One chunk can contain multiple sentences when the speaker doesn't
+ * pause inside the 5s window (typical for the host on a close mic).
+ * Whisper concatenates them — split on sentence-terminating
+ * punctuation and emit one transcript line per sentence so the
+ * self-transcript matches the per-sentence cadence the listener
+ * captures already produce. Fox 2026-06-05: "the self speech to
+ * text is not creating new lines for when there is new sentence,
+ * the listeners are doing a better job." */
+ const sentences = txt
+ .split(/(?<=[.!?])\s+/)
+ .map(s => s.trim())
+ .filter(s => s.length > 0);
+ for (const s of sentences){
+ const sNorm = s.toLowerCase().replace(/[.!?,;:\s]+$/,'').trim();
+ if (sNorm.length < 2) continue;
+ if (WHISPER_HALLUCINATIONS.has(sNorm)) continue;
+ appendTranscriptLine(uuid, s);
+ }
_whisperTick.emitted++;
} catch (err){
logLine('err', 'whisper transcribe '+uuid.slice(0,4)+': '+err.message);
@@ -7859,8 +7876,8 @@ logLine('', 'ready — pick a handle, type a rendezvous code, enter the space');