diff --git a/docs/deployment.md b/docs/deployment.md
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@@ -170,9 +170,13 @@ The device is `plughw:0,0` and not `hw:0,0`. The fifine offers 2 channels at
 44100 or 48000 and nothing else, and mavwaked asks arecord for 16kHz mono. Bare
 `hw` dies on "Channels count non available" before a frame is read.
 
-There is no wake word yet (V-487 stage two), so the loop runs open. mavwaked
-connects lazily, so `voicesink` cannot push a nudge to it until it has sent one
-utterance.
+There is no wake word yet (V-487 stage two), so the loop runs open.
+
+mavwaked connects at startup and holds the conn, so a nudge routed to voice
+reaches the speaker before he has said anything (V-671). It used to connect
+lazily, which made the failure silent rather than absent: after one utterance
+the session existed, `PushToMostRecent` succeeded, the dispatcher stopped
+rerouting to telegram and ntfy, and mavwaked discarded the audio.
 
 **Passwords are read from files, never taken as flag values.** `mavcaldav` uses
 `-pass-file` and `-render-pass-file`. `mavpoll` and `mavmaild` follow the same