tune Twilio Answering Machine Detection (AMD) parameters for outbound calls
domain: twilio.com · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Set MachineDetection to Enable (basic human/machine/fax/unknown result) or DetectMessageEnd (adds machine_end_beep/silence/other detail) on the call creation request.
Set AsyncAmd=true plus an AsyncAmdStatusCallback so the callee connects immediately while AMD runs in the background, instead of holding the call.
Tune MachineDetectionTimeout to bound how long Twilio waits before giving up detection.
Adjust MachineDetectionSpeechThreshold and MachineDetectionSpeechEndThreshold to shift the human/machine decision boundary based on typical greeting lengths for your calling population.
Set MachineDetectionSilenceTimeout to control how long initial silence is tolerated before returning 'unknown.'
Known gotchas
Synchronous AMD (AsyncAmd=false, the default) holds the callee in silence until detection completes, which measurably hurts perceived answer quality — most production use cases should use AsyncAmd=true.
AMD accuracy is inherently probabilistic and sensitive to the threshold parameters — thresholds tuned for one campaign's typical greeting style can misclassify a different population, so test and tune per use case rather than reusing defaults.
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