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I Cut Voice AI Latency From 4.2s to 780ms with Deepgram + ElevenLabs

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The first version of my voice agent took 4.2 seconds to answer a question. Not "felt slow." Measured: 4,247ms median from the last syllable a human spoke to the first syllable that came back. Voice AI latency is the one metric where users don't need your dashboard to notice the regression. They jus…

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  1. 2026-09-11 04:45 · DEV Community — AI
    I Cut Voice AI Latency From 4.2s to 780ms with Deepgram + ElevenLabs

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