How to Test Voice Agent Barge-In: 3 Objective Signals
Measure voice agent barge-in from recorded calls: three signals, did it yield, seconds to yield, and overlap seconds. Stack-agnostic, no integration.
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Barge-in guides
Practical, checkable guides on measuring and fixing voice agent barge-in, the moment a caller talks over your agent and it keeps going.
Fix a Voice Agent Talking Over the Caller (Pipecat/LiveKit)
A symptom to root cause map for barge-in failures in Pipecat and LiveKit voice agents: why the bot keeps talking and how to confirm it from a recording.
Read the guide ›Turn Detection and VAD Tuning: False vs Missed Barge-In
Tune VAD, endpointing, and turn detection so your voice agent stops cutting users off on pauses and filler, yet still yields to real interruptions.
Read the guide ›Barge-In on Phone Calls: Why 8kHz Telephony Breaks It
Why voice-agent barge-in that works in the browser breaks on Twilio calls: 8kHz turn detection, bot audio leaking into STT, mobile echo, and testing it.
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