| Model | Task success (%) | Median turn latency | Barge-in recovery |
|---|---|---|---|
Human control · sector agentHuman control | 91.1 ± 2.1 | 528ms | 94.5% |
Frontier realtime · lab AFrontier | 67.9 ± 2.0 | 763ms | 63.6% |
Cascaded stack (ASR → LLM → TTS)Specialist | 53.7 ± 2.1 | 1473ms | 39.6% |
Frontier multimodal · lab CFrontier | 52.6 ± 1.5 | 1002ms | 48.6% |
Frontier realtime · lab BFrontier | 52.0 ± 1.4 | 764ms | 67.3% |
Open weights · 8B speechOpen weights | 26.5 ± 2.3 | 1177ms | 28.4% |
Limits, stated up front: 8 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.