diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3545b0744..828fdb4fc 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Added
 
+- Added a new `WebsocketService` based class for TTS services, containing
+  base functions and retry logic.
+
 - Added support for Google TTS Journey voices in `GoogleTTSService`.
 
 - Added `29-livekit-audio-chat.py`, as a new foundational examples for
@@ -17,26 +20,36 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Added `enable_prejoin_ui`, `max_participants` and `start_video_off` params
   to `DailyRoomProperties`.
 
-- Added `session_timeout` to `FastAPIWebsocketTransport` and `WebsocketServerTransport`
-  for configuring session timeouts (in seconds). Triggers `on_session_timeout` for custom timeout handling.
-  See [examples/websocket-server/bot.py](https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat/blob/main/examples/websocket-server/bot.py).
+- Added `session_timeout` to `FastAPIWebsocketTransport` and
+  `WebsocketServerTransport` for configuring session timeouts (in seconds).
+  Triggers `on_session_timeout` for custom timeout handling. See
+  [examples/websocket-server/bot.py](https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat/blob/main/examples/websocket-server/bot.py).
 
-- Added the new modalities option and helper function to set Gemini output modalities.
+- Added the new modalities option and helper function to set Gemini output
+  modalities.
 
-- Added `examples/foundational/26d-gemini-multimodal-live-text.py` which is using Gemini as TEXT modality and using another TTS provider for TTS process.
+- Added `examples/foundational/26d-gemini-multimodal-live-text.py` which is
+  using Gemini as TEXT modality and using another TTS provider for TTS process.
 
 ### Changed
 
-- api_key, aws_access_key_id and region are no longer required parameters for the PollyTTSService (AWSTTSService)
-- Added `session_timeout` example in `examples/websocket-server/bot.py` to handle session timeout event.
-- Changed `InputParams` in `src/pipecat/services/gemini_multimodal_live/gemini.py` to support different modalities.
+- api_key, aws_access_key_id and region are no longer required parameters for
+  the PollyTTSService (AWSTTSService).
+- Added `session_timeout` example in `examples/websocket-server/bot.py` to
+  handle session timeout event.
+- Changed `InputParams` in `src/pipecat/services/gemini_multimodal_live/gemini.py`
+  to support different modalities.
 
 ### Fixed
 
+- Fixed an issue where websocket based TTS services could incorrectly terminate
+  their connection due to a retry counter not resetting.
+
 - Fixed an issue where `OpenAIRealtimeBetaLLMService` audio chunks were hitting
   an error when truncating audio content.
 
-- Fixed an issue where setting the voice and model for `RimeHttpTTSService` wasn't working.
+- Fixed an issue where setting the voice and model for `RimeHttpTTSService`
+  wasn't working.
 
 ## [0.0.52] - 2024-12-24
 
diff --git a/src/pipecat/services/cartesia.py b/src/pipecat/services/cartesia.py
index 2a2f0e00b..ed6f4145e 100644
--- a/src/pipecat/services/cartesia.py
+++ b/src/pipecat/services/cartesia.py
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD 2-Clause License
 #
 
-import asyncio
 import base64
 import json
 import uuid
diff --git a/src/pipecat/services/playht.py b/src/pipecat/services/playht.py
index ae2128197..ae5a19f82 100644
--- a/src/pipecat/services/playht.py
+++ b/src/pipecat/services/playht.py
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD 2-Clause License
 #
 
-import asyncio
 import io
 import json
 import struct