How to add filler words to reduce perceived latency

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This question originally came up in our Slack community and the thread has been consolidated here for long-term reference.

Is there a way to add some filler words like “umm”, “aah” to reduce perceived latency?

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Have a look at the “thinking sounds” documentation:

You can also access the thinking event through agent state events to perform custom logic:

There’s also this example for fast pre-responses:

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