~500ms turn-end to audio: EU voice agent stack delivers surprisingly low latency

tobowers · x · 2026-09-24

tobowers was surprised by how good his all-EU voice agent stack performs: 500ms from turn-end to first audio playback, with only 200ms of LLM inference. His takeaway: Europe lacks frontier general models but its specialty models (STT/TTS) are very good.

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