- Introducing user and bot turn start strategies. Turn start strategies indicate when user and bot turns begin. In conversational agents, these are often referred to as start/stop speaking or turn-taking plans or policies. User turn start strategies indicate when the user starts speaking (e.g. using VAD events or when a user says one or more words). Bot turn start strategies indicate when the bot should start speaking (e.g. using an end-of-turn detection model or by observing incoming transcriptions). A list of strategies can be specified for both the user and the bot; strategies are evaluated in order until one evaluates to true. Available user turn start strategies: - VADUserTurnStartStrategy - TranscriptionUserTurnStartStrategy - MinWordsUserTurnStartStrategy Available bot turn start strategies: - TranscriptionBotTurnStartStrategy - TurnAnalyzerBotTurnStartStrategy The default strategies are: - user: [VADUserTurnStartStrategy, TranscriptionUserTurnStartStrategy] - bot: [TranscriptionBotTurnStartStrategy] Turn start strategies are configured when setting up a `PipelineTask`. For example: ```python task = PipelineTask(..., params=PipelineParams( turn_start_strategies=TurnStartStrategies( bot=[ TurnAnalyzerBotTurnStartStrategy( turn_analyzer=LocalSmartTurnAnalyzerV3(params=SmartTurnParams()) ) ], ), )) ``` In order to use the turn start strategies you should update to the new universal `LLMContext` and `LLMContextAggregatorPair`.