diff --git a/extensions/google/speech-provider.test.ts b/extensions/google/speech-provider.test.ts
index c611a3fb031..b8834a58f0a 100644
--- a/extensions/google/speech-provider.test.ts
+++ b/extensions/google/speech-provider.test.ts
@@ -277,6 +277,54 @@ describe("Google speech provider", () => {
     expect(result.audioBuffer.subarray(44)).toEqual(pcm);
   });
 
+  it("retries once when Gemini TTS fetch aborts", async () => {
+    const pcm = Buffer.from([7, 0, 8, 0]);
+    const abortError = new Error("This operation was aborted");
+    abortError.name = "AbortError";
+    const requestSequence = vi
+      .fn()
+      .mockRejectedValueOnce(abortError)
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce({
+        response: googleTtsResponse(pcm),
+        release: vi.fn(async () => {}),
+      });
+    postJsonRequestMock.mockImplementation(requestSequence);
+    const provider = buildGoogleSpeechProvider();
+
+    const result = await provider.synthesize({
+      text: "Retry aborted fetch.",
+      cfg: {},
+      providerConfig: {
+        apiKey: "google-test-key",
+      },
+      target: "audio-file",
+      timeoutMs: 5_000,
+    });
+
+    expect(requestSequence).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+    expect(result.audioBuffer.subarray(44)).toEqual(pcm);
+  });
+
+  it("does not retry non-transient Gemini TTS request failures", async () => {
+    const requestSequence = vi.fn().mockRejectedValueOnce(new Error("invalid request"));
+    postJsonRequestMock.mockImplementation(requestSequence);
+    const provider = buildGoogleSpeechProvider();
+
+    await expect(
+      provider.synthesize({
+        text: "Do not retry this.",
+        cfg: {},
+        providerConfig: {
+          apiKey: "google-test-key",
+        },
+        target: "audio-file",
+        timeoutMs: 5_000,
+      }),
+    ).rejects.toThrow("invalid request");
+
+    expect(requestSequence).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
   it("falls back to GEMINI_API_KEY and configured Google API base URL", async () => {
     vi.stubEnv("GEMINI_API_KEY", "env-google-key");
     const requestMock = installGoogleTtsRequestMock();
diff --git a/extensions/google/speech-provider.ts b/extensions/google/speech-provider.ts
index b0a3932e0a6..951a4001cfa 100644
--- a/extensions/google/speech-provider.ts
+++ b/extensions/google/speech-provider.ts
@@ -107,6 +107,25 @@ class GoogleTtsRetryableError extends Error {
   }
 }
 
+function isGoogleTtsRetryableError(err: unknown): boolean {
+  if (err instanceof GoogleTtsRetryableError) {
+    return true;
+  }
+  if (!(err instanceof Error)) {
+    return false;
+  }
+  if (err.name === "AbortError") {
+    return true;
+  }
+  const message = err.message.toLowerCase();
+  return (
+    message.includes("aborted") ||
+    message.includes("timeout") ||
+    message.includes("fetch failed") ||
+    message.includes("network")
+  );
+}
+
 function normalizeGoogleTtsModel(model: unknown): string {
   const trimmed = normalizeOptionalString(model);
   if (!trimmed) {
@@ -509,7 +528,7 @@ async function synthesizeGoogleTtsPcm(params: {
       return await synthesizeGoogleTtsPcmOnce(params);
     } catch (err) {
       lastError = err;
-      if (!(err instanceof GoogleTtsRetryableError) || attempt > 0) {
+      if (!isGoogleTtsRetryableError(err) || attempt > 0) {
         throw err;
       }
     }
diff --git a/src/gateway/gateway-models.profiles.live.test.ts b/src/gateway/gateway-models.profiles.live.test.ts
index cecc380a6d7..6d10a3238ef 100644
--- a/src/gateway/gateway-models.profiles.live.test.ts
+++ b/src/gateway/gateway-models.profiles.live.test.ts
@@ -685,6 +685,7 @@ function shouldSkipToolNonceProbeMissForLiveModel(modelKey?: string): boolean {
     provider === "minimax" ||
     provider === "opencode" ||
     provider === "opencode-go" ||
+    provider === "openrouter" ||
     provider === "xai" ||
     provider === "zai"
   ) {
@@ -703,6 +704,7 @@ describe("shouldSkipToolNonceProbeMissForLiveModel", () => {
     { modelKey: "minimax/minimax-m1", expected: true },
     { modelKey: "opencode/big-pickle", expected: true },
     { modelKey: "opencode-go/glm-5", expected: true },
+    { modelKey: "openrouter/ai21/jamba-large-1.7", expected: true },
     { modelKey: "xai/grok-4.1-fast", expected: true },
     { modelKey: "zai/glm-5.1", expected: true },
     { modelKey: "google/gemini-3-flash-preview", expected: true },