Voice AI
Building a Voice AI Pipeline: STT vs TTS vs Native Audio — When to Use What
Technical comparison of voice AI architectures: traditional STT-LLM-TTS pipeline vs native audio-to-audio. Latency, quality, and cost trade-offs.
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By Edesy LabsPublished: March 18, 2026•2 min read

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