Interruption

Interrupt your Digital Person by holding up your hand in a ‘stop talking’ gesture.

You are now able to interrupt a digital person using a hand gesture. The user will do this by holding up their hand in a ‘stop’ gesture, for example, 🤚 or 🖐.

Enabling this feature allows the user is able to make a ‘stop’ gesture in front of their camera, and the digital person will detect this and interrupt the conversation. Once the user speaks or types input, the Digital Person will begin speaking again, jumping forward to the next intent in their conversation if the input received is appropriate.

The feature can be enabled and disabled directly in your corpus using high-level commands:

• #EnableStopTalkingGesture

• #DisableStopTalkingGesture

Please ensure that the commands are separated by a space on either side.

Example: Enable

#EnableStopTalkingGesture Hi there nice looking new person I've always wanted to meet! Oh my gosh it's so exciting to finally meet you! Oh wow, wow, wow! You're amazing. Can I get your autograph? Please please please!!!! 

Example: Enable and Disable

#EnableStopTalkingGesture Hi there nice looking new person I've always wanted to meet! Oh my gosh it's so exciting to finally meet you! Oh wow, wow, wow! You're amazing. Can I get your autograph? Please please #DisableStopTalkingGesture please!!!!

You can enable and disable the feature in single conversation intent, for a section of the conversation, or enable it at the beginning of a conversation for a whole session. Please note, once enabled the feature will only be disabled when the user passes through the intent carrying the disable command.