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Optimizing for first audio cut nine seconds of caller silence to about 1.5
A client's request for an expressive voice pushed a team off VAPI and onto Twilio, Deepgram and Cartesia. The metric they chased was time-to-first-audio: how fast the first syllable arrives. Owning the pipeline means owning barge-in.
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Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives45
- Confidence35