The Latency Budget: How ElevenLabs Engineers Think About Real-Time Voice

Walks through the engineering blog's five-stage voice pipeline and time-to-first-audio budget, why endpointing and LLM time-to-first-token dominate, and how Eleven v4 Turbo and Scribe v2 Realtime fit in. Then shows how this exact thinking is tested in the system design and product decomposition rounds, with real reported prompts like 'design voice chat for retail product search.'