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Indic-Turn-Detector: open-weights end-of-turn model for voice agents shared on Hacker News

A Show HN post on Hacker News introduces Indic-Turn-Detector, an open-weights end-of-turn model for voice agents, and links to its page on Hugging Face. End-of-turn models decide when a speaker has finished talking so that a voice agent knows when to respond. The name suggests a focus on Indic languages, but the provided snippet does not give details on languages, accuracy, or benchmarks. The Hacker News discussion shown has 1 point and 0 comments, so community response is still minimal.

Source: Hacker News · huggingface.co Published 2026-11-12T07:34:10+00:00 Detected 2026-11-12T10:20:47+00:00
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A Show HN post on Hacker News introduces Indic-Turn-Detector, an open-weights end-of-turn model for voice agents, and links to its page on Hugging Face. End-of-turn models decide when a speaker has finished talking so that a voice agent knows when to respond. The name suggests a focus on Indic languages, but the provided snippet does not give details on languages, accuracy, or benchmarks. The Hacker News discussion shown has 1 point and 0 comments, so community response is still minimal.

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Developers building voice agents for Indic-language users may find an open-weights option to test for turn detection. Teams can review the model card and weights on Hugging Face to judge fit for their own latency and accuracy needs. Next steps to watch are independent evaluations and any published results on Indic speech.

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