Turn Taking
Coming soon. Turn-taking support is in development and will be available in a future release of Orpheus.
What it is
Turn taking decides when one speaker has finished and the other should respond: the core problem in voice agents. It builds on VAD but adds the timing and contextual judgments that separate natural conversation from clipped, talked-over exchanges.
Who it's for
Teams shipping conversational voice AI (agents, copilots, IVR replacements) where end-pointing and response timing materially shape user experience. A voice agent that interrupts users feels broken; one that hesitates too long feels slow. Turn taking is the lever you tune.
What we'll publish here
When Turn Taking ships, this page will cover:
- The Turn Taking output signal and how to consume it in your agent runtime.
- How it interacts with Orpheus enhancement and VAD.
- A complete example matching the format on the Examples page.
- Evaluation guidance. Turn taking is evaluated on end-pointing precision (false starts, missed turns, latency to detected end-of-turn).
If your roadmap needs Turn Taking before the public release, tell us during onboarding.