What Actually Matters When Choosing an AI Receptionist (From a Dev Who Integrated 5 of Them)

What Actually Matters When Choosing an AI Receptionist I've integrated five different AI receptionist services into client projects over the past year. Here's what I wish someone had told me before I started. 1. Latency Is Your UX In web development, we obsess over time-to-first-byte. In voice AI, the equivalent is time-to-first-word — how long after the caller says something does the AI start responding? Most services quote pickup speed (how fast it answers the phone). But the more important me