Your Voice Agent is Just a Walkie Talkie — Neil Zeghidour, Gradium
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token — The chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.
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Explains why current voice agents can't handle overlapping speech naturally, and what neural codecs and dual-tokenThe chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.Full definition →-stream modeling need to solve to get real full-duplex conversation.
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