Text-to-Speech Agent Barge-In 2026: LiveKit Turn Detector
Master the LiveKit turn detector to fix voice agent barge-in in 2026 — stop your TTS agent from talking over users and yield the floor instantly.
Chapter 1: Why Barge-In Broke Voice Agents (And Why 2026 Is Different) Every developer who has shipped a voice agent has watched the same demo fail the same way. The agent starts reading a four-sentence answer. The user says "no, wait—" three words in. The agent keeps talking. The user says it louder. The agent finishes its paragraph, then finally stops, then asks "Sorry, could you repeat that?" — and the person on the other end has already decided your product is a robot. That failure has a name: barge-in. It's the ability of a caller to interrupt a speaking...