What is latency?
Latency is the time delay between when an action is initiated and when the system delivers the corresponding response. In audio, this means the gap between capturing a voice signal and the system's processed or responded output.
What is an example of latency?
In a voice AI agent, high latency means the caller waits noticeably after finishing a sentence before the agent replies, making the conversation feel robotic
How does latency work?
Latency is introduced through processing, buffering, and data transmission. It accumulates at every stage of the audio pipeline (network round-trip time, jitter buffers, audio I/O buffers, model inference time, the lookahead window built into streaming models). Minimizing it requires streaming-friendly architectures that process short audio frames, efficient models, and tightly integrated inference runtimes.
What is ai-coustics latency?
Our speech enhancement models are designed to run with ultra-low latency, down to 30ms, ensuring real-time improvements for voice agents.
