3 posts tagged "latency".
A voice agent's tool call happens inside a turn the caller is waiting through, which makes it a latency decision before it is an architecture one. The rule: reads that return fast run inline, writes and slow lookups get a receipt and finish asynchronously.
Vrishab Nair
Which speech platform to pick when your chatbot has to talk. The decision is not voice quality, it is whether you need a TTS API or a full voice agent, plus how the model reads account numbers and order IDs back to a caller.
Luke Oliff
Baseten published a case study on the SpeechifyAI voice agent stack. This is our view on why model co-location matters for live calls.
Luke Oliff