Weekly Large Model Application

Aug 10, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

LiveKit Turn Detector v1.0 Beats Deepgram Flux and Makes Turn Detection Measurable

LiveKit’s Turn Detector v1.0 replaces the traditional text‑only pipeline with a dual‑branch audio‑semantic architecture, achieving a 9.9% error rate at 300 ms latency—outperforming Deepgram Flux’s 12.9%—and releases an open‑source benchmark (eot‑bench) that turns end‑of‑turn detection into a reproducible engineering problem.