Sahaj Garg

In this engaging discussion, Sahaj Garg, CTO and co-founder of Whispr.ai, shares his expertise on low-latency AI applications. He explains how latency affects user experience and offers insights into measuring and diagnosing latency issues. The conversation covers critical trade-offs between speed, accuracy, and cost in AI models. Sahaj also introduces optimization techniques like quantization and distillation, stressing the importance of low latency for user engagement in interactive apps. Tune in for invaluable tips on navigating the latency landscape!

Sahaj Garg, CTO and co-founder of wispr.ai, shares insights on building low-latency AI applications, which are crucial for interactive voice experiences. He explains how latency affects consumer behavior and the importance of measuring it accurately. Topics include managing trade-offs between speed and accuracy, as well as scaling impacts on latency. Sahaj also delves into advanced techniques like quantization and speculative decoding, emphasizing the need for latency budgets in engineering decisions and the role of latency as a core product requirement.

Sahaj Garg, co-founder and CTO of Wispr, builds voice-to-text tooling that captures developer intent. He discusses why old dictation failed, a two-layer approach of transcript plus context, turning messy speech into zero-edit artifacts, rapid UX experiments vs long-term model work, and how voice can remove keyboard bottlenecks for engineers and leaders.