| Model | Task success (%) | Median turn latency | Barge-in recovery |
|---|---|---|---|
Human control · sector agentHuman control | 93.3 ± 2.0 | 623ms | 95.3% |
Frontier realtime · lab AFrontier | 54.4 ± 1.7 | 697ms | 64.6% |
Frontier realtime · lab BFrontier | 54.0 ± 1.2 | 1031ms | 68.2% |
Cascaded stack (ASR → LLM → TTS)Specialist | 48.4 ± 1.8 | 1213ms | 49.1% |
Frontier multimodal · lab CFrontier | 44.4 ± 0.9 | 1027ms | 48.9% |
Open weights · 8B speechOpen weights | 29.7 ± 0.8 | 1352ms | 32.5% |
Limits, stated up front: 7 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.