Natural human conversation is full of quick affirmations, interruptions, and micro-pauses. Building conversational voice AI requires nuanced turn-taking heuristics.
1. Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC)
Preventing the microphone from capturing the agent speaker output is critical to avoid false-positive barge-in interruptions.
2. Predictive Semantic Completion
Rather than relying solely on audio silence thresholds, evaluating grammatical completion cues allows the agent to distinguish a thoughtful pause from the end of a turn.
