// Hacker Noon · 1 May 2026

How to Evaluate STT for Voice Agents in Production

Voice agent developers are optimising for TTFB — time to first byte — but it's one of the least useful metrics in production. What actually determines how fast and reliable your agent feels is TTFS (time to final segment): the gap between a user finishing speech and a stable transcript landing in yo...

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