Voice Assistant Architecture

Build the correct real-time voice AI pipeline in order

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Overview: Voice Assistant Architecture

Voice assistant latency budget: VAD 10ms → STT 100-200ms → LLM 200-500ms → TTS 90-200ms → network 50-100ms = 450-1010ms total. Pipecat is the standard open-source framework. The hardest UX problem is barge-in: detecting user interruption while TTS is still playing.

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