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what happens when we do allow_interruption to be False, does it stops listening and transcribing user's speech?

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Thanks — you're asking whether setting `allow_interruption=False` stops the system from listening or transcribing user speech.

No — it does not stop listening or transcribing. The VAD/STT pipeline continues to capture and transcribe user audio in real time (you still get events like `user_input_transcribed`). What changes is interruption behavior: the agent will finish its current spoken response and will not cut off or cancel playback if the user starts speaking. Any user input captured while the agent is speaking is buffered and processed after the agent finishes.
 Sources: <https://docs.livekit.io/agents/logic-structure/turns/|Turns overview | LiveKit docs> | <https://docs.livekit.io/recipes/interrupt_user|Interrupt User | LiveKit docs> | <https://docs.livekit.io/recipes/repeater|Repeater | LiveKit docs> | <https://docs.livekit.io/agents/multimodality/audio/|Agent speech and audio | LiveKit docs> | <https://docs.livekit.io/recipes/uninterruptable|Uninterruptable Agent | LiveKit docs>