Noise cancellation improves turn-taking for AI Voice Agents

Turn-Taking is a big challenge AI Voice Agents are rapidly evolving, powering critical use-cases such as customer support automation, virtual assistants, gaming, and remote collaboration platforms. For these voice-driven interactions to feel natural and practical, the underlying audio pipeline must be resilient to noise, responsive, and accurate—especially in real-time scenarios. In a typical deployment, audio streams originate from diverse endpoints like mobile applications, web browsers, or traditional telephony and are delivered via real-time communication protocols like WebRTC or WebSockets (WSS). This audio is aggregated and managed through specialized providers like LiveKit, Daily, or Agora, which ensure reliable, low-latency audio transport to the server-side pipeline. Within the server pipeline, once the audio arrives, it undergoes optional preprocessing steps for formatting or basic adjustments, after which it moves directly into a Voice Activity Detection (VAD). VAD ident ... Read full article.