Notes & essays

Conversational-ai

Technical writing on conversational AI, speech, language models, and the things I build.

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How Voice AI Learned to Know When You're Done Talking

Five decades of turn-taking research on one timeline: conversation analysis, VAD and silence timers, predictive models like VAP, semantic endpointing, and full-duplex speech.

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