Natural turn-taking
Studying when agents should listen, speak, and respond to interruptions.
Voice agents · Research & development
Natural conversations.
Useful actions.
We’re building real-time voice agents that listen, respond, and work through tasks with people.
Our current research uses NVIDIA Nemotron VoiceChat to study turn-taking, tool use, and reliable conversational task completion.
Get in touchTools within reach
Connecting spoken requests with tools so agents can help complete practical tasks.
Measured reliability
Evaluating conversational behavior and task completion through controlled experiments.
About Shams Labs
Shams Labs is an independent research and product-development startup founded by Siavash Shams in July 2026. We’re developing our initial voice-agent technology for business applications.
Siavash’s research and background