THE MECHANISM
World state + duplex voice + an affective face
03Fast loop protects responsiveness
→04Slow loop adds meaning
→05Events join the loops
FAILURE → REPAIR
Common trap
“A single synchronous pipeline is simpler.”
Better model
It is locally simpler but makes end-to-end latency additive and creates visible freezes when one stage slows down.
YOUR NEXT GATE
Make responsiveness measurable
- 1Stand up the Pipecat cascade and enable metrics.
- 2Record time-to-first-audio and interruption behavior.
- 3Run Moshi using flags verified against its current repository.