Rebuilding the Podcast: Turn-Taking, Buttons, and Chatterbox
Daniel is sick in bed and has decided the podcast needs a rebuild: bring back audio prompts, add follow-up questions, and give him a push-to-interrupt button so he can grab the floor mid-episode. He thinks the button is the hard part. The research says it's the opposite — turn-taking primitives like push-to-talk have been standardized since walkie-talkies, while the live full-duplex version he's imagining is a genuine research frontier. This episode walks through the two-hundred-millisecond median gap that governs human turn-taking, why backchannels and barge-ins need to be treated…
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