Everyone evaluating AI avatar platforms focuses on voice quality. The bigger UX killer is almost...
Latency (2-4 sec dead air), not voice quality, kills UX in AI avatars; solution is token streaming and speculative rendering in orchestrated STT→LLM→TTS pipeline. For tech leaders, asynchronous pipelining architecture matters far more than TTS/LLM provider; realistic network testing reveals these architectural gaps.
Everyone evaluating AI avatar platforms focuses on voice quality. The bigger UX killer is almost always latency — and it's a harder problem than picking a good TTS provider.
Where the delay actually comes from:
User speaks/types
→ STT (if voice input)
→ LLM generates response (streaming helps, but first-token latency matters)
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