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Speech recognition and text-to-speech: how they work and how to serve them

Automatic speech recognition (log-mel features, encoder-decoder and CTC models, chunking, timestamps, real-time factor) and text-to-speech (acoustic model plus vocoder, streaming synthesis), the metrics that matter, and capacity maths with worked examples.

17 minยทVerified 2026-11Pro+50 XP

Voice products need two directions: speech to text (ASR) and text to speech (TTS). Both are neural models with different serving profiles from LLMs.

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