LLM Time-to-First-Token: Cutting Voice Agent TTFT (2026)
LLM TTFT is the single biggest latency line item, often 70% of total. We show how to cut it with prompt caching, smaller models, region pinning, and Realtime APIs that fuse STT + LLM.
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LLM TTFT is the single biggest latency line item, often 70% of total. We show how to cut it with prompt caching, smaller models, region pinning, and Realtime APIs that fuse STT + LLM.
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