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When invoking a tool, how to avoid getting interrupted by the user?

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To avoid user interruptions when invoking a tool in the LiveKit Agents framework, you can set the `allow_interruptions` parameter to `False` when using the `generate_reply()` method. However, if you're using a RealtimeModel with turn detection capabilities, this setting won't work as expected. In such cases, you would need to disable turn detection in the RealtimeModel and use Voice Activity Detection (VAD) on the AgentTask/VoiceAgent instead.
 Sources: <https://github.com/livekit/agents/blob/06a1c61a250769814cdab99114aadb69fbbbd4be/livekit-agents/livekit/agents/voice/agent_activity.py#L525-L573|GitHub::livekit::agents | livekit-agents/livekit/agents/voice/agent_activit...>

Will that count for the whole tool execution or only during the reply?

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