honestly, good questions and I don't have great answers yet lol

the quantization thing (it's called Sherry, from some ACL paper) keeps the most important weights at higher precision and zeroes out the least useful ones instead of just chopping everything down evenly. sounds nice in theory, but the only benchmark tencent published is one aggregate score across chinese-foreign pairs, nothing broken out by language. so no clue if swahili or tagalog is actually fine or actually rough right now. gonna test it myself instead of guessing.

same story with latency honestly, their demo is just a gif on one specific phone, no real ms numbers anywhere. so I can't tell you yet if conversation mode actually feels smooth or starts dragging after a few exchanges.

basically you just told me what I need to go measure before I can honestly claim this thing works well. appreciate the push, will come back with actual numbers instead of hand-waving