Cartesia | A Guide to Choosing Voice AI Models
Original excerpt
For voice agents, we believe the metric that matters is TTFS - Time to Final Segment (aka the Time to Complete Transcript (TTCT)).
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Attributed viewpoint
TTFS and TTCT as voice latency metrics
The author considers TTFS (Time to Final Segment), also called TTCT (Time to Complete Transcript), the metric that matters for voice agents.
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