Digital Humans
Bring digital avatars to life with generative AI.
Workloads
Generative AI
Industries
Gaming
Financial Services
Healthcare and Life Sciences
Media and Entertainment
Retail / Consumer Packaged Goods
Telecommunications
Robotics
Business Goal
Innovation
Products
NVIDIA ACE
NVIDIA Riva
NVIDIA NeMotron
NVIDIA A2X
-
Overview
-
Technical Implementation
-
FAQ
How Developers Create Lifelike Digital Humans Using AI
Developers are exploring how generative AI can accelerate their content pipelines and provide new experiences—and one area they’re focusing on is the creation of digital humans for next-generation gaming experiences and virtual customer service interactions.
Traditionally, creating digital humans has posed numerous challenges. Achieving realism requires capturing intricate human anatomy, facial expressions, and movements. Animating characters with natural movements and behaviors demands sophisticated motion capture systems. And optimizing performance to ensure everything runs in real time is computationally intensive. To address these challenges, teams are turning to generative AI to find innovative ways of creating interactive digital humans.
NVIDIA Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) is a suite of technologies that help developers bring digital humans to life. ACE AI microservices are designed to run in the cloud or locally on the PC. With individual microservices, platform developers can take portions of the ACE technology suite and incorporate them into their end-to-end platform.
Quick Links
Harnessing AI for Real-Time Language Understanding, Speech, Animation and Graphics
NVIDIA ACE for speech and animation, NVIDIA NeMo for language, and NVIDIA RTX™ for ray-traced rendering are the building blocks that enable developers to create digital humans capable of AI-powered natural language interactions, making conversations more realistic and engaging.
The digital human technologies suite includes language, speech, animation, and graphics powered by AI:
NVIDIA ACE
Technologies that help developers bring digital humans to life with facial animation powered by NVIDIA Audio2Face (A2F) and speech powered by NVIDIA Riva Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS).
NVIDIA NeMo
An end-to-end platform for developing custom generative AI. NeMo enables developers to deliver enterprise-ready models with precise data curation, cutting-edge customization, retrieval-augmented generation, and accelerated performance.
NVIDIA RTX
A collection of rendering technologies such as RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) and DLSS 3.5 that enable real-time path tracing in games and applications.
Developers can leverage NVIDIA digital human technologies to build their own solutions from the ground up, or use NVIDIA’s suite of domain-specific AI workflows for next generation game characters, interactive digital assistants for customer service, and digital avatars for real-time communication.
Generative AI models can be both compute and memory intensive, and running both AI and graphics on the local system will require a powerful GPU with dedicated AI hardware. ACE is flexible in allowing models to be run across cloud and PC depending on local GPU capabilities to ensure the user gets the best experience.
Covert Protocol is a technology demo created in collaboration with Inworld AI. This sample leverages NVIDIA ACE microservices such as NVIDIA Audio2Face and Riva Automatic Speech Recognition.
"The combination of NVIDIA ACE microservices and the Inworld AI Engine enables developers to create digital characters that can drive dynamic narratives, opening new possibilities for how gamers can decipher, deduce and play."
Kylan Gibbs, CEO, Inworld AI
"Generative AI-powered characters in virtual worlds unlock various use cases and experiences that were previously impossible,” said Convai Founder and CEO Purnendu Mukherjee. “Convai is leveraging NVIDIA ACE technologies such as Riva automatic speech recognition and Audio2Face to enable lifelike non-playable characters with low latency response times and high fidelity natural animation."
Purnendu Mukherjee, Founder and CEO, Convai
News
Get Started
Top game and digital human developers are pioneering ways ACE and generative AI technologies can be used to transform interactions between players and NPCs in games and applications. Learn more about NVIDIA ACE, future developments, and early access programs.