Who is building the agent operating system?
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OpenAI · Conversational UX
Natural interaction quality · updated 2026-06-01
Advanced Voice set the bar for latency, interruption handling, and natural turn-taking.
How natural, fast, and trustworthy is the back-and-forth? Voice quality, latency, interruption handling, multimodality, and the sense that the assistant understood you the first time.
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