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Notes from building AI systems that have to work in real time.
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2 posts tagged voice ai
2026
Where the latency goes in a local voice agent
A stage-by-stage breakdown of a local voice agent's turn, with measured numbers: speech recognition is cheap, endpointing and the model's first sentence are not.
· 6 min read · voice ai, latency, speech recognition
Barge-in is a policy problem, not a model problem
Two-stage barge-in, echo gating and an interviewer's turn-taking rules: why interruptions in voice agents are state-machine code that deserves ordinary tests.
· 6 min read · voice ai, turn-taking, barge-in