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The voice agent wasn't bad at listening. I was asking it to decide when to speak
A developer found that a voice agent's problem was turn-taking: it treated pauses as completed user turns and started speaking over the user. The developer says the issue was not speech recognition but the model's decision about when to respond.
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The voice agent wasn't bad at listening. I was asking it to decide when to speak.: A developer found that a voice agent's problem was turn-taking: it treated pauses as completed user turns and started speaking over the user. The developer says the issue was not speech recognition but the model's decision about when to respond.