Sparrow-1 is a specialized audio model that predicts conversational timing by modeling floor ownership continuously rather than waiting for silence. It achieves human-level turn-taking by analyzing prosody, hesitation, and acoustic cues that text-based systems miss. Benchmarks show it delivers 100% precision and recall with

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Timing Is the Hard PartWhen timing fails in conversational AIWhat is Sparrow-1?A new architecture for conversational flowBenchmarking Human ConversationBenchmark ResultsModeling human-like turn-taking behaviorAccess and Closing

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