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The 200ms voice latency budget — where every millisecond goes

A frame-by-frame breakdown of a sub-second voice agent's turn budget. STT, network, LLM, TTS — and the surprising places we've shaved 80ms.

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Published
May 7, 2026

A frame-by-frame breakdown of a sub-second voice agent's turn budget. STT, network, LLM, TTS — and the surprising places we've shaved 80ms.

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