Hurdle We Faced: Handling Multimodal Inputs in Sync

One of the major hurdles we encountered during development was managing asynchronous processing for multimodal inputs — especially when dealing with audio and image inputs alongside text. Each input type required different preprocessing steps (e.g., speech-to-text, image encoding), and syncing their processing without slowing down the response was challenging.

How We Solved It:

We adopted FastAPI’s async capabilities to handle concurrent requests more efficiently and used background tasks to manage time-intensive processes like image analysis and speech recognition. Additionally, we optimized the frontend with loading indicators and micro-delays to improve perceived performance, making the experience feel seamless for users.

This helped us maintain real-time speed while handling three very different forms of input — staying true to Groq’s high-performance promise.