speech to text

Voice is a major modality and a common applied-AI surface. The signal is the audio-to-text pipeline, why Whisper is resilient, and the cumulative latency budget that can make or break a real-time voice agent.

Transcribing in real time at scale probes streaming ASR, latency budgets, and GPU fleet management under heavy concurrency. The signal is chunked streaming inference with partial results, not batch transcription. Here is the design.

A voice assistant links STT, an LLM, and TTS under a punishing latency budget where each stage piles on delay. The signal is streaming and pipelining the stages plus turn-taking, not three blocking calls. Here is the design.