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Design a real-time transcription system for thousands of concurrent audio streams.

Real-time transcription at scale tests streaming ASR, latency budgets, and GPU fleet management under heavy concurrency. The signal is streaming chunked inference with partial results, not batch transcription. Here is the design.

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Real-time transcription at scale tests streaming ASR, latency budgets, and GPU fleet management under heavy concurrency. The signal is streaming chunked inference with partial results, not batch transcription. Here is the design.

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