Beyond the Text Bottleneck: Why Native Speech-to-Speech Changes Voice AI
afigueiredo · x · 2026-11-01
A new article argues that native speech-to-speech models mark a fundamental shift for voice AI. Cascaded pipelines (ASR → LLM → TTS) use text as an intermediate bottleneck, discarding paralinguistic cues like tone, pauses, and emotion. Native S2S models reason directly over audio, enabling more natural, real-time conversational voice experiences — and the piece examines what this means for voice AI product architecture.
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