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Noise cancellation improves turn-taking for AI Voice Agents

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Re: Noise cancellation improves turn-taking for AI Voice Agents

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How much better is the turn taking relative to two humans, when, for example, ordering a pizza? Human to human interaction has a non-zero false turn taking false positive score in my experience.

IMO this is a use-case where the added latency of cell phones is a downgrade.

Re: Noise cancellation improves turn-taking for AI Voice Agents

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post #11

How much better is the turn taking relative to two humans, when, for example, ordering a pizza? Human to human interaction has a non-zero false turn taking false positive score in my experience.

Latency (such as you get when communicating over the phone) makes turn taking much more difficult. Even in-person it's still a non-zero false positive rate though.

Re: Noise cancellation improves turn-taking for AI Voice Agents

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Can this be used to clean podcast audio? I don't see a reason why it can't be...

Adobe already has such a product: https://podcast.adobe.com/enhance

I have used it for quite sometime. The v2 works fairly well now but still not _great_.

Re: Noise cancellation improves turn-taking for AI Voice Agents

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Can this be used to clean podcast audio? I don't see a reason why it can't be...

You can use krisp.ai during recording to already remove a lot if not all noise. Not sure about cleaning up in part but I suspect there are a bunch of those tools available as open source as well.

Re: Noise cancellation improves turn-taking for AI Voice Agents

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How about having the AI keep talking until you say a specific word like "stop". Background noise will rarely produce a false positive for that word.

Because that's a completely different problem. By doing that you'd reduce the problem to transcription and have a worse UX.
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