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My Voice Agent Replied in 8 Seconds. Two Settings, Not the Model.
Community description: The delay wasn't the model. Two turn-taking defaults in OpenClaw + Discord added about eight seconds; here's the before/after config, the setting that mattered most, and what a session costs.
Dev.to | Oct 7, 2026 | Ken Mazaika
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I run OpenClaw as my main agent harness, with the voice layer on Discord. The realtime voice model consulted the entire agent before it spoke. The realtime model (gpt-realtime-2. 1) is only the voice layer — turn-taking, barge-in, playback.
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