I'm having trouble believing network latency would be the bottleneck here. Just ping google.com and you'll see ~25ms latency which is a lot less than the half second delay described in the article.
Now, having the server actually process the information, and return a response that then must then be vocalized may take much longer, but that's a different issue than "network latency".
Not to mention when people interact, they often use filler words when collecting thoughts... "um...", "uh...", "hmmm..", "yeah...". there's your half second delay
Now, having the server actually process the information, and return a response that then must then be vocalized may take much longer, but that's a different issue than "network latency".
Not to mention when people interact, they often use filler words when collecting thoughts... "um...", "uh...", "hmmm..", "yeah...". there's your half second delay