diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/sound/kit.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/sound/kit.rs
index 4558f6bc..daa03d7b 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/sound/kit.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/sound/kit.rs
@@ -1000,11 +1000,30 @@ pub(super) fn arms_effect_cut(was: bool, now: bool) -> bool {
     now && !was
 }
 
-/// Which categories the enabling edge stops. `Sfx` alone: music and ambience are the reference's
-/// `flags & 0x4000008` class, muted rather than stopped (`0x7a65a0`), so a toggle must not cost
-/// the player their music — the point of the toggle is to cut a bark, not to restart the score.
-fn stopped_by_reenable(category: SoundCategory) -> bool {
-    matches!(category, SoundCategory::Sfx)
+/// Which channels the enabling edge stops: a kit-played `Sfx` channel, and nothing else.
+///
+/// Two exclusions, and they have different standing.
+///
+/// Music and ambience are **derived**: they are the reference's `flags & 0x4000008` class, muted
+/// rather than stopped (`0x7a65a0`), so a toggle must not cost the player their music — the point
+/// of the toggle is to cut a bark, not to restart the score.
+///
+/// `kit == 0`, the `PlaySoundFile` path ([`play_file`], whose doc records that id as its own
+/// marker), is **measured, not derived**, and the distinction is worth keeping honest. Stopping
+/// those too is what the first revision of this did, and it silenced SoftSpoken completely:
+/// grom's session carries ten `MasterSoundEffects re-enabled` lines and he heard none of the ten
+/// voice lines that produced them. It has to be excluded, because **every 1.12 voice-over addon
+/// toggles this CVar and then plays its own file** — a cut that reaches file playback cuts the
+/// very thing the toggle was spent to make room for.
+///
+/// Which of the reference's two flag classes a streamed file falls in is not settled here;
+/// `0x4000008`'s meaning is unreversed, so this is a player's measurement standing in for a fact
+/// we do not have. What it costs is the other half of SoftSpoken's use of the toggle:
+/// `SoundQueue.StopKeeping` spends it to stop its *own* clip before replaying one, and that does
+/// nothing again. If the overlapping-replay symptom returns, this is why — and the per-kit line
+/// the stop now logs is what will say so.
+fn stopped_by_reenable(kit: u32, category: SoundCategory) -> bool {
+    matches!(category, SoundCategory::Sfx) && kit != 0
 }
 
 /// Spend an armed `MasterSoundEffects` enabling edge: stop every playing effect, as the
@@ -1042,17 +1061,25 @@ pub(super) fn cut_effects_on_reenable(
         return;
     }
     let before = out.channels.len();
+    // Named, not merely counted: which kits a toggle cuts is the only evidence separating "the
+    // bark died, as intended" from "we cut the line the addon was about to speak".
+    let mut stopped: Vec<u32> = Vec::new();
+    let mut spared_files = 0usize;
     out.channels.retain_mut(|c| {
-        if !stopped_by_reenable(c.category) {
+        if !stopped_by_reenable(c.kit, c.category) {
+            spared_files += usize::from(c.kit == 0 && c.category == SoundCategory::Sfx);
             return true;
         }
+        stopped.push(c.kit);
         c.handle.stop(mixer::declick());
         false
     });
-    let stopped = before - out.channels.len();
-    if stopped > 0 {
+    if !stopped.is_empty() || spared_files > 0 {
         info!(
-            "sound: MasterSoundEffects re-enabled — {stopped} effect channel(s) stopped (0x7a67a0)"
+            "sound: MasterSoundEffects re-enabled — stopped {} of {before} channel(s), kits {:?}; \
+             spared {spared_files} PlaySoundFile channel(s) (0x7a67a0)",
+            stopped.len(),
+            stopped
         );
     }
 }
@@ -1130,15 +1157,25 @@ mod tests {
         assert!(enabled, "and leave sound effects on");
     }
 
-    /// The toggle cuts effects and leaves the score alone.
+    /// The toggle cuts barks, leaves the score alone, and — the one grom's silence paid for —
+    /// never touches an addon's own `PlaySoundFile` audio.
     #[test]
-    fn the_reenabling_edge_spares_music_and_ambience() {
-        assert!(stopped_by_reenable(SoundCategory::Sfx));
+    fn the_reenabling_edge_spares_music_ambience_and_addon_files() {
         assert!(
-            !stopped_by_reenable(SoundCategory::Music),
+            stopped_by_reenable(1, SoundCategory::Sfx),
+            "a kit-played effect is the bark the toggle exists to cut"
+        );
+        assert!(
+            !stopped_by_reenable(1, SoundCategory::Music),
             "music is the reference's mute-not-stop class (`flags & 0x4000008`, `0x7a65a0`)"
         );
-        assert!(!stopped_by_reenable(SoundCategory::Ambience));
+        assert!(!stopped_by_reenable(1, SoundCategory::Ambience));
+        assert!(
+            !stopped_by_reenable(0, SoundCategory::Sfx),
+            "kit 0 is `play_file`'s marker, so this is an addon's own `PlaySoundFile`. Cutting \
+             it silenced SoftSpoken outright: every 1.12 voice-over addon toggles this CVar and \
+             then plays its own file, so the cut would take the line the toggle made room for"
+        );
     }
 
     /// Pinned as the 13 dwords at `.data` `0x87ce60`.