Audio Pipeline Decomposition & Sub-500ms Turnaround Benchmark
Streaming Audio & Semantic Turn-Taking
Sub-120ms streaming Whisper ASR paired with prefix-cached LLMs and Cartesia Sonic TTS delivers sub-400ms end-to-end turnaround with zero conversational collision.
Turnaround: 380ms (Human-Parity Fluidity)
Legacy Batch REST Pipeline
Batch audio recording, cold prompt evaluation, and non-streaming TTS introduce 1,200ms+ lag, resulting in severe user hesitation and frequent interruptions.
Turnaround: 1,450ms (Collision Zone)