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Your Voice Agent's Dead Air Is an Architecture Problem
A voice agent that goes silent for two seconds after the caller stops talking feels broken, and no faster model fixes it, because the floor is retrieval plus generation plus speech. The fix is structural: run a fast loop that owns the microphone and the caller's attention, and a slow loop that does the real work behind it. This is how to split them, handle barge-in cleanly, and warm the expensive work before the caller has finished the sentence.
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