Before I get into the details, I'd just like to say I was able to build this thanks to the work done by the people who work on Pipecat & SmartTurn as this relied on their data. SmartTurn is a fantastic open source model for turn detection. I needed a much smaller version that could fit anywhere and be always on (always actually being every 20ms in this case), so I figured I could do a trade off of making it support one language only (English), not rely on building on top of a Whisper model and possibly squeeze out similar performance. While I do still wish to improve this model significantly,…

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