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AUG 2026 · DEEP DIVE

The anatomy of time-to-first-audio in a voice agent

From turn-commit to first audio: LLM ~59%, TTS ~28%, my orchestration ~14% — and one first token took 2.9 s. I was tuning the wrong layer.

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cadence

Provider-agnostic Go engine for low-latency STT→LLM→TTS voice pipelines — streaming engines behind uniform interfaces, swap vendors with a config change. Owns the hot path.

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