Latency Budgets for Multimodal UX

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Latency is product quality

Speed shapes trust. Anything over a second feels like drift, especially with voice and vision in the loop.

Benchmarks we’re using

• 300ms: acceptable delay for single-shot AI completions.
• 800ms: upper limit for conversational voice turns.
• 2.4s: max budget for stitched voice + vision responses.

Instrumentation checklist

Wire client-side timers, trace model calls, and break down edge cases.

Share the dashboards in weekly reviews so everyone sees the cost of drag.