The outcome
Deliver useful live captions or voice input without silently losing, duplicating, or misattributing speech.
Step by step
A workflow you can repeat.
- 01
Define supported audio format, sample rate, languages, latency target, session limit, consent signal, and behavior when the connection fails.
- 02
Create a short-lived authorized connection from a trusted backend and stream correctly paced audio without exposing the project API key to clients.
- 03
Distinguish partial from final turns, order events by session metadata, and buffer rendering so revisions do not appear as duplicate speech.
- 04
Test silence, crosstalk, accents, names, network interruption, reconnects, rate limits, and clean termination with timestamped fixtures.
- 05
Monitor latency, error rate, accuracy samples, concurrency, and spend; redact logs and terminate every session when audio or consent ends.
Working standard
What good use looks like.
- Keep long-lived keys off clients.
- Separate partial and final turns.
- Test reconnects with real audio fixtures.
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