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One-second turn deadline

A production voice agent must begin speaking within about one second of the user's utterance ending, or the exchange feels broken.

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Real-Time Voice AI Stack for Agents: Architecture Guide

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It has about a second to start talking before the exchange feels broken.
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A production voice agent chains transport, speech recognition, a language model, speech synthesis, and orchestration into a single real-time exchange, and each layer draws from the same shared clock.

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