NVIDIA ACE

NVIDIA Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) is a set of technologies for building digital characters and virtual assistants using generative AI. It gives developers tools to bring realistic, interactive “digital humans” into apps such as games, customer support, and telemedicine.

What NVIDIA ACE does

• Generates speech from text with natural intonation and emotion
• Drives facial and body animation based on speech and motion-capture/deep learning
• Understands and generates human language for interactive conversations
• Supports speech recognition and speech synthesis
• Includes text translation and computer vision capabilities
• Enables model fine-tuning and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

Where it’s used

• More realistic, interactive NPCs and characters in games
• Avatars for virtual worlds
• Virtual tutors and learning assistants
• Brand representatives and customer-facing avatars
• Virtual agents for customer service

Availability and formats

• Microservices available through NVIDIA NIM
• Unreal Engine 5 plugins for game integration
• Deployment in the cloud or locally on PCs with NVIDIA RTX AI support