Show HN: Sparrow-1 – Audio-native model for human-level turn-taking without ASR

Re:Show HN: Sparrow-1 – Audio-native model for human-level t... by allan_s on Thursday January 15, 2026 @10:50AM (#46634288)

How does it compare with https://github.com/KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChat , which is absent of the benchmark ?

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Re:Show HN: Sparrow-1 – Audio-native model for human-level t... by bpanahij on Thursday January 15, 2026 @11:48AM (#46635328)

I haven’t tried that one yet, I’ll check it out.

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Re:Show HN: Sparrow-1 – Audio-native model for human-level t... by sippeangelo on Thursday January 15, 2026 @02:29PM (#46637869)

That's not a turn-taking model, it's just a silence detection Python script based on whatever text comes out of Whisper...

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