Interruptions

This page covers how Sayvy AI detects user speech, manages natural turn-taking, and handles conversational interruptions.

Voice Activity Detection (VAD) Tuning

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Silero VAD calibration and threshold parameters
Detection windows (min_speech_duration_ms, min_silence_duration_ms)
Mitigating false triggers from breathing and background noise

Barge-In Interrupt Protocol

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Emitting cancellation tokens on active turns
WebRTC Data Channel fast-kill packets
Instant client-side audio buffer flushing

Conversational Fillers & Natural Turn Management

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Distinguishing passive backchannel affirmations (“mhm”, “yeah”) from true barge-ins
Dynamic pause thresholding based on sentence completion heuristics