A new era of virtual interaction: NVIDIA ACE technologies bring intelligent avatars to life

NVIDIA ACE's cutting-edge digital avatar technologies bring life-like AI to life. AI innovators leverage these technologies to create sophisticated avatars and interactive characters for use across industries, from gaming to health, financial and business applications. From Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on March 22, 2024, NVIDIA announced that leading AI application developers will use its advanced digital technologies to create dynamic avatars and characters that will be showcased at this week's GTC Global Artificial Intelligence Conference in San Jose, California, and which can be followed in technology demonstrations from companies like and beyond. NVIDIA ACE Technologies NVIDIA Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) for speech and animation, NVIDIA NeMo™ for language, and NVIDIA RTX™ for graphics are the foundation that enables developers to create digital avatars with the ability to interact naturally in AI-powered language, making conversations more realistic and engaging.

“NVIDIA offers developers a comprehensive set of AI-powered technologies to create digital humans,” says John Spitzer, vice president of performance and development technologies at NVIDIA. He adds: “These technologies enable the complex animation and interactive speech needed to make digital interactions feel real.” Advanced digital human technologies include a set of tools that enhance language, speech, animation, and AI-powered graphics: NVIDIA ACE: Technologies that help developers bring digital humans to life with facial animation powered by NVIDIA Audio2Face™ and speech powered by NVIDIA Riva automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) technology. ACE microservices are flexible and enable models to run across the cloud and PC. NVIDIA NeMo: A comprehensive platform that enables developers to deliver enterprise-ready generative AI models with precise data cleansing, leading personalization, recovery-augmented generation (RAG), and accelerated performance.

NVIDIA RTX: A set of rendering technologies, such as RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) and DLSS 3.5, that enable realistic path tracing in games and applications. The NVIDIA ACE family helps bring characters to life in electronic games, and the “Covert Protocol” technology demo, developed in collaboration between Inworld AI and NVIDIA, is a perfect example of this. This offering redefines the interactions possible between characters within games, leveraging the capabilities of Inworld's AI engine and NVIDIA Riva and NVIDIA Audio2Face technologies to deliver realistic facial experiences.

Inworld's AI engine takes a holistic approach that combines cognition, visualization and behaviour, to deliver immersive stories with characters enhanced by advanced RTX technology, presented in carefully designed environments. “NVIDIA ACE Microsoft Services in collaboration with the Inworld Engine allows developers to create digital characters capable of driving narratives, opening up new possibilities for gameplay experiences,” notes Kellan Gibbs, CEO of Inworld AI. NVIDIA ACE technologies are of interest to developers in industries as diverse as healthcare, gaming, financial services, media, entertainment, and retail, as they develop new ways to use generative AI techniques to improve interactions between players and NPCs. Companies supporting ACE technology include: Convai, Cyber ​​Agent, Data Monsters, Deloitte, Hippocratic AI, IGOODI, Inworld AI, Media.Monks, miHoYo, NetEase Games, Perfect World, Openstream, OurPalm, Quantiphi, Rakuten Securities, Slalom, SoftServe, Tencent, Top Health Tech, Ubisoft, UneeQ and Unions Avatars.

Developers can leverage the full suite of digital humans or individual microservices from NVIDIA ACE to integrate them into their products, and they can start using NVIDIA ACE by joining the early access program to get access to the company's AI models. To explore available models, developers can evaluate and access NVIDIA NIM, a suite of easy-to-use microservices designed to accelerate the deployment of generative AI, for Riva and Audio2Face. Available via NVIDIA has been a pioneer in accelerated computing since its founding in 1993, revolutionizing computer graphics, gaming and artificial intelligence. Today, NVIDIA is an end-to-end compute infrastructure company with data center solutions that is reshaping industries.

For more information about NVIDIA's digital avatar technologies and how to access these tools, developers can visit the official NVIDIA website. Read also: The new NVIDIA application: a unified, improved and innovative control center for NVIDIA cards Source: Official sponsored post by NVIDIA.