Worked on the livekit/agents repository to enhance the stability of the AudioRecognition component by addressing asynchronous cleanup challenges. Focused on preventing deadlocks and resource leaks that could occur during task cancellation, the solution involved wrapping await calls in try-except blocks to handle CancelledError exceptions and ensuring all tasks were properly awaited and cleaned up, even when pre-cancelled. This approach resolved issues with stuck aclose() activity and improved the reliability of real-time voice workflows. The work leveraged Python, asynchronous programming, and unit testing to deliver a more robust task lifecycle management and error handling process within the system.