# Interruption Prediction Now Available for Telnyx Voice AI Assistants

> Source: <https://telnyx.com/release-notes/interruption-prediction-voice-ai-assistants>
> Published: 2026-07-06 00:00:00+00:00

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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](https://developers.telnyx.com/docs/inference/ai-assistants/transcription-settings).