Speech-to-Speech (STS) AI Phone-Response Service Development
Joined development of a phone-response AI SaaS combining LLMs with speech synthesis. Designed a voice platform that balances natural conversational experience with real-time responsiveness.
Challenge
- Phone responses cannot tolerate seconds of silence, requiring parallel LLM streaming responses and speech synthesis.
- Misrecognition / clarification fallbacks must be implemented naturally.
- Encrypted call-log storage and high-precision PII masking are required.
Solution
- Pipelined STT → LLM streaming response → speech synthesis, achieving sub-1-second latency to first response.
- Attached confidence scores to speech recognition; auto-injected clarification prompts on low confidence.
- Auto-applied recording encryption and PII masking (names, phone numbers, address patterns).
Technology Decisions
Why Python on the backend
The voice and ML library ecosystem is concentrated in Python; direct handling beats other-language wrappers for debuggability.
Outcomes
Time to First Response
< 1 second
STT → LLM streaming → TTS pipeline achieves gap-free perception
Recognition Accuracy
95%+
Industry-term dialogue; auto-clarification on low confidence score
PII Masking
Names / phone / address patterns auto-applied
Applied before encrypted recording storage
Call-Log Encryption
At-rest + in-transit
AES-256 + TLS 1.3
Team
1 of our engineers (SES) + client-side team
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