
Nuance Labs
Seattle, WA
Real-time emotional AI foundation model for speech, face, and body
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Nuance Labs builds a unified human foundation model that understands and generates emotion in real-time across speech, facial expressions, and body language. It enables empathetic AI interactions for consumer applications, bridging the emotional gap in current AI systems. Founded by ex-Apple PhDs, they focus on multimodal AI to create human-like conversational experiences.
Tech stack
PyTorch, Python, CUDA, TensorRT, Kubernetes, Rust, Go
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