Comment by rfv6723

Human spoken conversation doesn’t really work like file buffering.

People can tolerate missing words surprisingly well. If a phrase is slightly clipped, masked by noise, or dropped, the listener can often infer it from context. That happens constantly in real speech.

But pauses and stalls are much more damaging. A sudden freeze in the middle of speech breaks turn-taking, timing, and attention. It feels like the speaker stopped thinking, the connection died, or the system got stuck.

For voice UX, a tiny omission is often less harmful than a perfectly complete sentence that freezes halfway.