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Voice AI Assistants on Telnyx can now tune how confident they must be that a caller wants to take the turn before they stop talking. Set a threshold and the assistant ignores backchannels like "yeah" or "uh-huh", only yielding the floor for genuine interruptions.
interruption_settings.interrupt_prediction_threshold
, sets the confidence required before barge-in fires. Range 0.0 to 1.0, default 0.0 (off), 0.4 is a good starting point.interruption_settings
, configurable from Mission Control or the AI Assistants API. Null or 0.0 disables prediction and falls back to standard barge-in.Learn more in the Telnyx transcription settings docs.
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