AI · 1h ago
Latency, Not Voice Quality, Is the Real UX Killer in AI Avatars
AI avatar platforms often focus on voice quality, but latency is the bigger UX problem. Delays from STT, LLM, TTS, and rendering can cause 2-4 seconds of dead air. Production systems solve this with token streaming, speculative rendering, and persistent connections.
Meridian48 take
The article rightly shifts focus from voice quality to pipeline orchestration, but it understates the challenge of achieving sub-second latency at scale across diverse geographies.
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