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Gemini TTS audio now leaves the router as it arrives

calendar_today August 4, 2026 domain speko

Status: available. Gemini answers in server-sent events with base64 audio per frame, and the router was decoding the whole body before sending any of it. On a streaming route each frame is now decoded and forwarded as it arrives, which moved first-byte latency from 3695 ms to 786 ms on the same request, and gives the Dominican Spanish accent a streaming voice for the first time.

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