Implement deferred interruption handling for backchannels#475
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Deferred Interruption Handling for Backchannels
This PR fixes an interruption issue in the LiveKit voice agent pipeline where short passive acknowledgements such as "okay", "yeah", or "uh-huh" were incorrectly treated as real interruptions and caused the agent to cut off mid-speech.
Key Improvements
AudioRecognitionProof (Video)
Files Changed
livekit-agents/livekit/agents/voice/audio_recognition.pylivekit-agents/livekit/agents/voice/agent_activity.pylivekit-agents/livekit/agents/ipc/supervised_proc.pyNotes
This resolves the VAD–STT race condition without relying on pause/resume behavior and aligns with the assignment requirement for robust yet responsive interruption handling.
Video demonstration attached below.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PrefOubQecFKNXs6Qi45-oJTlHnhPsAI/view