Bhaskar Singh — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

AI Research Lead at Josh Talks
Built Human-1, the first full-duplex spoken dialogue model for any Indian language
Developed production ASR systems for 8–10 Indian languages
Reduced AI model training time from 40 hours/epoch to 6 hours/epoch
Cut AI inference costs to 1% of the original spend
Came up through 6 years of full-stack engineering

Biography

Bhaskar Singh serves as an AI Research Lead at Josh Talks, where he spearheads an AI Research team dedicated to developing machines that can communicate like humans. His work spans natural language processing (NLP), deep learning, and speech AI, with a particular focus on Indian languages.

A notable achievement includes leading the development of Human-1, which is described as the first full-duplex spoken dialogue model for any Indian language.