The 320ms Frontier: Why sub-second voice latency changes customer trust forever.
A comprehensive technical teardown of speech-to-text chunking, neural acoustic tokenizers, and SIP PBX routing that eliminate awkward conversational silences.
David Sterling
Chief Technology Officer • 9 min read • Oct 2026
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