Build a voice-to-voice agent (ASR to LLM to TTS) that feels natural at under 500ms end to end. Break down the latency budget.

Under 500ms from end of speech to first audio out, across three models and a network. The trick is that you never wait for any stage to finish: you stream and pipeline everything.

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Under 500ms from end of speech to first audio out, across three models and a network. The trick is that you never wait for any stage to finish: you stream and pipeline everything.

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