Context-Aware Processing
Speech is ambiguous when interpreted in isolation.
A short audio fragment may contain multiple plausible interpretations. Additional speech often makes the intended meaning clearer.
Consider:
Let's send it to Alex...
Let's send it to Alex Chen...
Let's send it to Alex Chen after the review.
The later context changes how earlier information should be interpreted and structured.
Context is part of recognition
LansonAI treats live speech as an evolving context rather than a sequence of independent audio fragments.
This allows the system to use surrounding information when resolving ambiguity.
Context can help with:
- ambiguous words
- names and terminology
- sentence boundaries
- corrections
- semantic continuity
- translation
Context does not mean waiting for completion
A system could obtain maximum context simply by waiting until the speaker finishes.
That would defeat the purpose of real-time processing.
The challenge is therefore:
Use enough context to improve interpretation without turning live speech into offline transcription.
This tradeoff is central to LansonAI's real-time architecture.
Context accumulates over time
Conceptually:
audio₁ → interpretation₁
audio₂
+ previous context
→ interpretation₂
audio₃
+ accumulated context
→ interpretation₃
The system continuously updates its understanding as new evidence arrives.
Applications therefore receive speech as an evolving stream of context rather than a collection of isolated recognition requests.
StableStream
LansonAI's approach to maintaining readable continuity while live speech continues to evolve.
Understanding Latency
There is no single latency number for a live speech system. What users experience as latency is the result of several different stages.
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