When Silence Is Not a Turn: Voice AI Needs a Control Plane
TL;DR for operators A production voice agent has to decide more than what to say. It has to decide whether a pause means the user finished speaking, whether response pacing should change, which earlier constraints still matter, and how much historical audio is worth sending back to the model. Scalable Context Orchestration for Serving LLMs Over Voice1 treats those decisions as a separate systems layer. Its llmovoice middleware explicitly tracks semantic, speech-delivery, and environmental state; organizes completed interactions into persistent memory structures; and projects only a bounded, relevance-weighted portion of history into the serving model. ...