ElevenLabs Conversational AI survey bot — reducing latency and robotic feel, plus initial delay issue

Building a Czech-language outbound market research survey bot on ElevenLabs Conversational AI. Current setup: STT: Scribe v2.2 Realtime model LLM: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B model, As per the 11labs portal, this has the lowest latency TTS: V3 Conversational Use case: automated survey calls in CZECH Issues we're facing: Initial delay — noticeable lag at the start of the call before the bot speaks. How do we reduce this? We want users to start a conversation by saying hi/hello, and then the bot introduces it