The first thing I check when a client tells me their AI voice agent "feels slow" is not the model. It is almost never the model. I have swapped a faster model into a sluggish agent and had callers notice nothing at all, because the seconds they were feeling were never being spent where everyone...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/nabeelbaghoor/a-faster-model-will-not-fix-your-slow-voice-agent-chf)