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AI Engineer July 20, 2026 32m

Voice Agents That Handle Interrupts - Chintan Agrawal and Daniel Wirjo, AWS

Summary

This discussion focuses on turn-taking in voice agents, emphasizing it as an audio engineering challenge rather than an LLM problem. Key considerations include the "200-millisecond constraint" of human conversation and the pipeline architecture that enables agents to detect interruptions. The practical takeaway is that effective turn-taking is crucial for a natural and positive user experience in voice interactions.

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