| Model | Task success (%) | Median turn latency | Barge-in recovery |
|---|---|---|---|
Human control · sector agentHuman control | 92.5 ± 0.9 | 696ms | 93.4% |
Cascaded stack (ASR → LLM → TTS)Specialist | 57.0 ± 1.8 | 1648ms | 45.9% |
Frontier realtime · lab AFrontier | 55.3 ± 1.0 | 705ms | 67.8% |
Frontier realtime · lab BFrontier | 53.4 ± 2.2 | 1041ms | 57.7% |
Frontier multimodal · lab CFrontier | 48.5 ± 2.0 | 956ms | 51.8% |
Open weights · 8B speechOpen weights | 26.1 ± 2.3 | 1192ms | 34.4% |
Limits, stated up front: 5 languages only, single-channel audio, and no cross-sector transfer. The control is one operator per sector, so the human line carries its own error bar — it is a working standard, not a ceiling.