Voice & Turn-Taking Settings

These settings control how aggressively the agent detects user speech and decides when to respond.

Interruptions

• allow_interruptions
  • Allows the user to interrupt the agent mid-speech.
• min_interruption_duration
  • Minimum duration of detected user speech to count as an interruption.

Defaults:

• allow_interruptions=True
• min_interruption_duration=0.08

Turn-taking / endpointing

• min_silence_duration
• activation_threshold
• prefix_padding_duration
• min_endpointing_delay
• max_endpointing_delay

Defaults:

• min_silence_duration=0.25
• activation_threshold=0.55
• prefix_padding_duration=0.25
• min_endpointing_delay=0.45
• max_endpointing_delay=0.9

Practical guidance

• If the agent responds too quickly, increase min_silence_duration.
• If the agent interrupts users too easily, reduce allow_interruptions or increase min_interruption_duration.
• If speech is missed at the beginning, increase prefix_padding_duration.