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news.ycombinator.com faviconShow HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch

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A developer built a sub-500ms latency voice agent by co-locating and aggressively pipelining STT, LLM, and TTS stages. Commenters debate trade-offs vs. end-to-end models, endpoint detection alternatives, and the difficulty of human-like turn-taking.