Episode Details

Daniel is sick in bed and has decided the podcast needs a rebuild: bring back audio prompts, add follow-up questions, and give him a push-to-interrupt button so he can grab the floor mid-episode. He thinks the button is the hard part. The research says it's the opposite — turn-taking primitives like push-to-talk have been standardized since walkie-talkies, while the live full-duplex version he's imagining is a genuine research frontier. This episode walks through the two-hundred-millisecond median gap that governs human turn-taking, why backchannels and barge-ins need to be treated differently, and why the simplest viable build is a turn-based, offline, multi-turn pipeline with Chatterbox synthesis at the end. If you've ever wondered whether your voice-agent idea is overcomplicated, this is the episode where the answer turns out to be: only the part you weren't worried about. Episode #061893 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/061893