Designing a Low-Latency Speech-to-Text Pipeline for Dictation

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Push-to-talk dictation doesn't need a WebSocket. Here's how streaming, async, and a sync dictation API compare on latency, billing, and failure modes.
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Dictation has different architectural requirements from live captions, voice agents, and long-form transcription. This article compares browser, streaming, asynchronous, and synchronous approaches, then explains why a synchronous request model can make sense for push-to-talk dictation, including the trade-offs around latency, retries, cleanup, customization, and cost.