The perfect trap doesn’t look like a trap. It looks like an opportunity. When a phone scammer hears the voice of “Daisy”—a rambling, confused grandmother—they think they have hit the jackpot. They hear a vulnerable target. They hear someone they can manipulate. The caller hears the long, 4-second pauses before she answers a question, and assumes she is struggling to keep up. They think they are winning. But they are wrong. They are talking to a Python script. And that 4-second silence isn’t confusion—it’s Latency Engineering. The Technical Wall Building a real-time Voice AI has a massive technical hurdle. The loop of Speech-to-Text → LLM Processing → Text-to-Speech takes time.…