Why it matters
Chat agents get seconds to respond. Voice agents get 200 milliseconds, and if they get it wrong, the user doesn't retry, they hang up. The gap between "impressive voice demo" and "agent people actually want to talk to" is entirely in the engineering: latency budgets, barge-in handling, turn-taking, and the silence dete
My takeaway: Voice Agents That Handle Interrupts - Chintan Agrawal and Daniel Wirjo, AWS is an agent-security signal. The practical read is that autonomy, memory, tool permissions, and third-party integrations are the control surface that needs threat modeling and monitoring.