everyone asks which STT is "fastest"
but, fastest at what?
bcz "real-time" in speech recognition means two completely different things and most teams are optimizing the wrong one.
one word. two problems.
gave a talk last weekend on how voice AI works. the stt→llm→tts pipeline, why you get ~800ms before a conversation feels broken, and how orchestrators like pipecat/livekit run the whole loop
live demo ran on @pipecat_ai with @smallest_AI's Pulse + Lightning models (the stack i