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The Hard Parts of Real-Time Voice Agent Audio

A developer's blog post and open-source project GoSFU explore the technical challenges of achieving low-latency audio in real-time voice agents, highlighting when latency becomes audible and how to mitigate it.

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Blog: https://gokuljs.com/blogs/when-latency-becomes-audible
code: https://github.com/gokuljs/GoSFU

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