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Kwindla Hultman Kramer
CEO @ Daily | Helping developers create awesome video experiences built on global WebRTC infrastructure | Y Combinator Top Company 2023
Kwindla Hultman Kramer is a technology entrepreneur and executive based in the San Francisco Bay Area.1 He is currently the Co-founder and CEO of Daily, a company that develops infrastructure and SDKs for video and audio.2 Kramer has been in this role since January 2016.1
Professional Experience
Prior to founding Daily, Kramer held several notable positions:
- CEO of Oblong Industries, Inc. from 2005 to 20131
- CTO of AllAfrica, Inc. from 1999 to 20061
- Entrepreneur in Residence at TenOneTen Ventures from 2014 to 20161
Board Memberships
Kramer has also served on the boards of multiple companies:
- Member of the Board of Directors at ZeeMee (2015 - Present)13
- Member of the Board of Directors at SnowShoe (2014 - 2016)1
Other Roles
Throughout his career, Kramer has taken on various consulting and advisory roles:
- Consulting CTO for Media Matters for America (2003 - 2004)1
- Consulting Technology Architect for the Democratic National Committee (2001 - 2002)1
Skills and Interests
Kramer appears to have a diverse skill set, including experience with Haskell programming language, as evidenced by his role as "Chief Haskell Officer" at Sabbatical, Ltd.1 He also mentions having "barely passable" skills in French and Arabic.1
Kwindla Hultman Kramer's LinkedIn profile username is indeed kwkramer, as mentioned in the query.1
Highlights
“At OpenAI we have a very strong conviction that voice will be a huge part of the future of computer interfaces.” — Prashant M. presenting at the @Cloudflare / @CRV HolidAI party. https://t.co/v9hhjJ7BYR
Shockingly good voice agent performance from Gemini Multimodal Live in a noisy environment ...
This is post 3 in our series — 2⃣5⃣ demos heading into 2⃣0⃣2⃣5⃣ ᓚᘏᗢ Building multimodal AI with Pipecat and Gemini
Voice AI agents succeed or fail based on the their real-world interruption handling performance.
The AI needs to stop talking whenever the user starts talking. This is tricky. Background noise, and even background speech, should not trigger an interruption.
@pipecat_ai's Open Source, state-of-the-art interruption handling implementation combines:
— A small "voice activity detection" AI model — Baselining against a running average of audio volume — Optionally, audio processing using the excellent @krispHQ audio processing models.
Krisp's models are specialized for background noise filtering and primary speaker isolation.
As you can see in the video, the performance of Gemini Multimodal Live's native audio input + Pipecat + Krisp is truly next-level.
