April 18, 2025
If you came to the voice AI meetup this week or watched the stream, you know I'm super-excited about progress on improving voice AI turn detection.
↩️ OpenAI shipped a semantic VAD turn detection upgrade for the Realtime API.
↩️ @heytavus shipped the Sparrow smart turn detection model (and a great technical write-up about it).
↩️The community open source / open data smart turn model project that I work on shipped a new checkpoint and several new data sets.
You can contribute to the open source model development by playing some online voice games, and consenting to have your voice recorded for the open data sets! Link below.
Contribute to the open source smart turn data sets: https://t.co/x2tpaIcOn3
Smart turn model code: https://t.co/YbiYc7Y8VT
And data sets on @huggingface: https://t.co/CKxE7QPNzo
Tavus technical write-up about Sparrow: https://t.co/Akod68yh61
Video from the voice AI meetup on Wednesday: https://t.co/2rdH8UcmQu