Engineering TTS Inference in vLLM-Omni
TTS inference is a heterogeneous pipeline combining latency-bound and throughput-bound stages, making traditional LLM optimization strategies ineffective and requiring architecture-aware scheduling.
TTS inference is a heterogeneous pipeline combining latency-bound and throughput-bound stages, making traditional LLM optimization strategies ineffective and requiring architecture-aware scheduling.
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