Nvidia Unveils Virtual Human Builder for Metaverse Characters - Voicebot.ai

Nvidia has introduced a new platform for building virtual beings to interact with in the digital realms of the metaverse, which Nvidia refers to as its Omniverse. The Nvidia Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) provides a collection of AI models and related tools for users to design the AI creations that will populate their virtual worlds, including synthetic voices and visual media. The cloud-based ACE catalog streamlines building virtual beings and applies Nvidia's computing power to setting up and embedding the AI avatars in digital worlds. The resulting synthetic being can converse in multiple languages, offering recommendations based on the conversation and even process its digital environment enough to interact with objects around it. The system used Nvidia's Unified Compute Framework of software products, including the Riva speech AI technology and the NeMo Megatron natural language understanding using large language models.