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Stop racing for latency; start engineering for natural conversation flow
◆ 65RelevanceOn a story from The New Stack5h ago
Microsoft’s move makes ultra-low latency transcription a commodity, shifting the competitive landscape for voice startups. You must now differentiate by solving the "silence" problem—managing natural turn-taking and context during pauses rather than just raw speed.
Takeaways
- Transcription speed is commoditized; focus on orchestration and turn-taking logic.
- Handling silence is a harder engineering problem than processing speech.
- Shift your roadmap from latency benchmarks to human-like conversational flow.
Read the original at thenewstack.io
Microsoft’s new voice AI can start working out what you want before you finish speaking
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