To clarify, while you can enable transcription to see what Ichigo says, Ichigo's design skips directly from audio to speech representations without creating a text transcription of the user’s input. This makes interactions faster but does mean that the user's spoken input isn't transcribed to text.
The flow we use is Speech → Encoder → Speech Representations → LLM → Text → TTS. By skipping the text step, we're able to speed things up and focus on the verbal experience.
To clarify, while you can enable transcription to see what Ichigo says, Ichigo's design skips directly from audio to speech representations without creating a text transcription of the user’s input. This makes interactions faster but does mean that the user's spoken input isn't transcribed to text.
The flow we use is Speech → Encoder → Speech Representations → LLM → Text → TTS. By skipping the text step, we're able to speed things up and focus on the verbal experience.
Hope this clears things up!