| Model | Task success (%) | Median turn latency | Barge-in recovery |
|---|---|---|---|
Human control · sector agentHuman control | 93.4 ± 2.0 | 641ms | 96.4% |
Frontier realtime · lab AFrontier | 59.1 ± 1.7 | 790ms | 68.4% |
Frontier realtime · lab BFrontier | 57.2 ± 1.3 | 834ms | 59.8% |
Frontier multimodal · lab CFrontier | 50.1 ± 0.7 | 884ms | 53.9% |
Cascaded stack (ASR → LLM → TTS)Specialist | 48.2 ± 1.0 | 1519ms | 39.2% |
Open weights · 8B speechOpen weights | 24.6 ± 0.6 | 1012ms | 29.3% |
Limits, stated up front: 6 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.