# Audio & Speech

Speech recognition with Whisper and text-to-speech generation.

Use this subtrack when you want voice interfaces, transcription pipelines, and speech-driven assistants. It is best treated as a practical systems branch rather than a deep speech-research path.

## How To Use This Subtrack Well

- Start with speech-to-text and text-to-speech before tackling full duplex voice systems.
- Measure latency and transcription quality alongside model quality.
- Pair this work with [../../20-real-time-streaming/README.md](../../20-real-time-streaming/README.md) if you want conversational audio products.

## What Comes Next

- Continue to [../README.md](../README.md) for the broader multimodal roadmap.
- Continue to [../../20-real-time-streaming/README.md](../../20-real-time-streaming/README.md) for realtime transport and interaction patterns.
- Continue to [../../15-ai-agents/README.md](../../15-ai-agents/README.md) if you want tool-using voice agents.
