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Dead air

Silence during a live conversation, usually while the agent looks something up.

A few seconds is normal. Repeated long silences usually indicate a tooling or knowledge problem rather than an agent problem, which is precisely why it is worth measuring at the team level before coaching anyone about it.

In QXAI

Silence is measured as a percentage of the call, alongside the longest single stretch.

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