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With the significant progress made in the past two decades in speech technologies, spoken dialog systems have been able to progressively handle more and more complex tasks, while at the same time becoming more sophisticated in handling the structure and the uncertainties inherent to conversation. Yet, at the lower level of timing and turn-taking, current systems are still rigid and brittle, particularly when natural language input is accepted. In this talk, I will focus specifically on the problem of end-of-turn detection, which has typically been handled by a pause detection mechanism combined with a fixed threshold on the duration of the pause (e.g. consider