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the real bottleneck in phone agents isn't the model, it's turn taking

I kept tuning the LLM prompt and the TTS voice! The calls still felt off. Then I looked closer at the actual audio timing instead of the transcript. The problem wasn't the words. It was when the agent started talking. VAD would flag a pause and the agent would jump in too soon. Humans read tone and…

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  1. 2026-10-15 14:48 · r/AI_Agents
    the real bottleneck in phone agents isn't the model, it's turn taking

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