Tyger brings full-duplex listening to voice agents that otherwise act like walkie-talkies
solyarisoftware · x · 2026-10-18
Developer defoemark argues most voice agents work like walkie-talkies: they wait for silence before speaking, while real humans interrupt, pause to think, and ask questions mid-conversation.
His Tyger agent uses full-duplex audio: it keeps transcribing and listening even while talking, deciding on its own when to speak, yield, or chime in — much closer to natural human conversation dynamics.
Related event: Tyger: Open-Source Speech Decision Model Enables Full-Duplex Voice Agents(3 posts)→
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