I do think that voice ai pipelines still route almost everything through full ASR to generative decoding. A lot of latency and cost sits in that text-output step so reformulating the problem as constrained classification (audio to action) instead of open generation is def going to be the new paradigm shift
Say hello to Thud: the first Audio Action Model.
It listens, chooses an action, and executes it in 200ms. 10脳 faster and 20脳 cheaper than Gemini Live.
Open an app. Navigate a menu. Send a message. Just say it.
Watch me navigate my Mira smart glasses, just by talking to Thud.