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Latency
Definition
The delay between a person finishing speaking and an AI system beginning its response.
Going deeper
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Why it matters so much for voice
Normal human conversation has response gaps typically well under a second, anything noticeably longer starts to feel like an awkward pause or a technical glitch.
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What contributes to it
Delay accumulates across speech to text, the language model generating a response, and text to speech converting that response into audio.
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