Hey guys,

You know what drives me insane about voice AI? The constant interruptions. You pause for half a second, and it just barges in. It feels so unnatural.

Well, I saw a tech talk that dug into this, and they open-sourced their solution: a model called the TEN Turn Detection.

It's not just a simple VAD. It's smart enough to know if you've actually finished talking or are just pausing to think. This means the AI can wait for you to finish, then reply instantly without that awkward delay. It completely changes the conversational flow.

This feels like a core piece of the puzzle for making AI interactions feel less like a transaction and more like a real conversation. The model is on Hugging Face, and it's part of their larger open-source framework for conversational AI.

This feels like the real deal for anyone building voice agents.

• Hugging Face Model: https://huggingface.co/TEN-framework/TEN_Turn_Detection
• Main GitHub: https://github.com/ten-framework/ten-framework