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.
Supporting evidence
Real-Time Voice AI Stack for Agents: Architecture Guide
Original excerpt
It has about a second to start talking before the exchange feels broken.
Context
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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