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Speech and Voice AI: ASR, TTS, and Voice Agents
Voice agents chain three systems: speech-to-text (ASR), an LLM, and text-to-speech (TTS), all under a hard real-time latency budget that text chat never faces. This page covers acoustic modeling and CTC basics, the cascade-versus-end-to-end tradeoff, and the conversational mechanics that actually break demos: turn-taking, barge-in, and the sub-second response budget. Applied AI interviews probe it because voice exposes whether you can reason about streaming, latency accounting, and a distinct class of failure modes.
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