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A conversational avatar that only listens will look frozen unless idle or listening motion is added elsewhere (inference). Limitations. Limits are the authors' own statement, with no numeric thresholds. Version/date. arXiv 2508.16401 (2025).\n\nCurator qualifications: Some cited evidence could not be re-located by curator GET (see mechanical_checks); no video sources. 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