{"slug": "interruption-prediction-now-available-for-telnyx-voice-ai-assistants", "title": "Interruption Prediction Now Available for Telnyx Voice AI Assistants", "summary": "Telnyx launched interruption prediction for its Voice AI Assistants, allowing developers to set a confidence threshold for barge-in. The feature filters out backchannels like 'yeah' or 'uh-huh' and only responds to genuine interruptions, configurable via Mission Control or the AI Assistants API.", "body_md": "[Contact us](https://telnyx.com/contact-us)\n\n[Log in](https://portal.telnyx.com)\n\nVoice 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.\n\n`interruption_settings.interrupt_prediction_threshold`\n\n, 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`\n\n, 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](https://developers.telnyx.com/docs/inference/ai-assistants/transcription-settings).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/interruption-prediction-now-available-for-telnyx-voice-ai-assistants", "canonical_source": "https://telnyx.com/release-notes/interruption-prediction-voice-ai-assistants", "published_at": "2026-07-06 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-07 01:55:53.100891+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-tools", "natural-language-processing"], "entities": ["Telnyx", "Mission Control", "AI Assistants API"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/interruption-prediction-now-available-for-telnyx-voice-ai-assistants", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/interruption-prediction-now-available-for-telnyx-voice-ai-assistants.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/interruption-prediction-now-available-for-telnyx-voice-ai-assistants.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/interruption-prediction-now-available-for-telnyx-voice-ai-assistants.jsonld"}}