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The voice agent wasn't bad at listening. I was asking it to decide when to speak.

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Spent some time debugging a voice agent that kept talking at the wrong moment. Nothing was obviously wrong with the transcript. It understood what the user said, and the answers were usually reasonable. It just kept treating pauses as completed turns. A user pauses to think, and the agent starts re…

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  1. 2026-08-19 19:16 · r/PromptEngineering
    The voice agent wasn't bad at listening. I was asking it to decide when to speak.

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