Near-GPU TTS latency, zero GPU: what voice agents actually need in production
Versa 2.0 has produced first audio in 74 ms on one CPU thread.
In our RTX 4090 test, Kokoro's first cold synthesis took 2.44 seconds, with 14.9 seconds of model load time.
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