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Your speech model runs faster than real time. Why do users still wait or hear gaps?

Work two audio timelines: input accumulation before transcription and playback starvation after synthesis. Compare real-time factor, response delay and safe concurrent capacity without mixing their units.

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Work two audio timelines: input accumulation before transcription and playback starvation after synthesis. Compare real-time factor, response delay and safe concurrent capacity without mixing their units.

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Change the assumptions in a free calculator, then explain what the result establishes and what still needs measurement.

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Define audio duration versus processing time, then distinguish provisional results, final results and continuous playback. Show how a buffer changes both audible latency and tolerated arrival delay.

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