Record Latency: Without having to transcribe spoken word into text to understand it, we can drastically reduce latency.
Preservation of Nuance: Text is a poor medium for tone and emotion. A simple "Okay" can have five different meanings based on tonality. Native speech processing captures these latent acoustic features that text-based intermediates discard. If you want your service representatives to be empathetic and de-escalate heated situations. So should your AI application. For this you need understanding of emotion and reaction with emotion.
Minimal Word Error Rate: STT / TTS Pipelines suffer from high word error rates, that create a cascade of follow up errors. Any number, any e-mail, any address that is misunderstood, will break the effectiveness of your Voice AI application. With Speech to Speech Technology we have the highest performance on understanding and can scale that to 27 languages.
Intelligence Retention: By projecting audio to the model, we unlock the model's full pre-trained world knowledge, reasoning, and tool-calling capabilities without the degradation typically seen in pure audio-based models.