Default voice activity detection — releaseTimeInSeconds tuned for cleaner turn handoff

The default for releaseTimeInSeconds in DEFAULT_VOICE_DETECTION_CONFIG has been retuned based on transcript-level analysis of how often the model and the user step on each other.

What this affects:

  • Agents created after this change pick up the new default automatically.
  • Agents created before are unchanged — their explicit value lives on the saved config. Re-saving the agent config in the console refreshes them to the new default.
  • The change reduces premature turn handoffs (agent cutting off the user mid-sentence) without noticeably increasing agent response latency.

Migration: no action. To opt existing agents into the new default, re-save their config in the Atoms console.