NewInterruptible voiceTalking to AI
Full-duplex voice
From OpenAI · September 2026Source(opens in a new tab)
Voice AI that can listen and speak at the same time, so you can interrupt it mid-sentence like a real person.
In the workshop
The difference between a walkie-talkie, where you wait for 'over', and a phone call with a colleague across the workshop, where you can cut in with 'no, the other drawer'.
In your business
A bakery can let a voice agent take phone orders, and a customer who says 'actually, make that two loaves' halfway through is heard straight away.
https://www.baachee.ai/ai-glossary/full-duplex-voice
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