diff --git a/dave/bot.mjs b/dave/bot.mjs
index 4932055..5c87c43 100644
--- a/dave/bot.mjs
+++ b/dave/bot.mjs
@@ -62,6 +62,25 @@ const MIN_UTTERANCE_BYTES = Number(process.env.WSAI_MIN_UTTERANCE_BYTES || 67000
 const t0 = Date.now();
 const log = (...a) => console.log(`[+${String(Date.now() - t0).padStart(6)}ms]`, ...a);
 
+// Throttle bursty repeated logs. DAVE (E2EE) group transitions — someone joins
+// or leaves the voice channel — briefly deliver undecryptable packets, so the
+// same "recv stream error" can fire many times in a second. Log the first
+// occurrence of a given message immediately, then collapse repeats within a
+// window into one summary line instead of flooding the log.
+const _throttle = new Map(); // key -> { count, timer }
+function logThrottled(key, msg, windowMs = 10_000) {
+  const e = _throttle.get(key);
+  if (e) { e.count++; return; }
+  log(msg);
+  const timer = setTimeout(() => {
+    const cur = _throttle.get(key);
+    _throttle.delete(key);
+    if (cur && cur.count > 0) log(`${msg} (+${cur.count} more in ${Math.round(windowMs / 1000)}s)`);
+  }, windowMs);
+  if (typeof timer.unref === 'function') timer.unref();
+  _throttle.set(key, { count: 0, timer });
+}
+
 // PCM s16le -> WAV container (so the Python side can ffmpeg-decode it).
 function wavHeader(dataLen, sampleRate = 48000, channels = 2, bits = 16) {
   const blockAlign = channels * bits / 8;
@@ -165,6 +184,7 @@ client.once('clientReady', async () => {
     selfDeaf: false, // MUST be false to receive audio (the STT input path)
     selfMute: false, // false so we can also speak later (M5 TTS)
   });
+  connection.on('error', (e) => log(`voice connection error: ${e.message}`));
 
   try {
     // The DAVE/MLS handshake here cycles signalling<->connecting several times
@@ -201,7 +221,7 @@ client.once('clientReady', async () => {
     // A receive-stream error (e.g. a DAVE decrypt/UDP GenericFailure on one
     // packet) must NOT crash the process — log it and free the slot so the
     // next utterance still works.
-    opusStream.on('error', (e) => { log(`recv stream error user=${userId}: ${e.message}`); active.delete(userId); });
+    opusStream.on('error', (e) => { logThrottled(`recv:${e.message}`, `recv stream error user=${userId}: ${e.message}`); active.delete(userId); });
     opusStream.pipe(decoder);
     decoder.on('data', (d) => {
       chunks.push(d);