Kanjun Qiu
Co-Founder & CEO of Outspeed
Co-founder & CEO of Outspeed and former CEO of Generally Intelligent (research lab backed by leading founders). Pioneer in real-time voice-to-voice multimodal AI agent infrastructure, building open-source frameworks for sub-200ms audio streaming, WebRTC, and speech-to-speech models.
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The Architecture of Low-Latency Voice-to-Voice Foundation Systems
Published foundational engineering breakdowns on chunked audio tokenization, speculative speech generation, and interruption handling in spoken human-AI dialogue.
Interruption handling latency is constrained by acoustic round-trip echo feedback.
Context: Voice activity detection (VAD), speculative decoding, speech token streaming.
View missionOutspeed: Open Source Real-Time Voice and Multimodal AI Agent Framework
Engineered Outspeed, a Python library enabling developers to build sub-second real-time voice and vision agents running over WebRTC with bidirectional audio streaming.
Real-time bidirectional audio requires dedicated edge TURN/STUN infrastructure to prevent packet loss over mobile networks.
Context: WebRTC, Python asyncio, VAD (Voice Activity Detection), Cartesia, Deepgram, Claude 3.5.
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