Developers can use end-to-end APIs to build AI
agents that engage in realistic interactions
Delphi leverages Tavus to power its new digital
clone feature for personalized learning
Tavus, a leading generative AI video research company, today
announced a transformative new product, Conversational Video
Interface (CVI). Extending the Tavus platform, CVI now gives
developers the world’s first complete set of building blocks
required to create interactive visual experiences with digital
twins that speak, see, and hear just like the humans they
represent. An early tester of CVI, Delphi is now using Tavus to
power its new Video Clone feature.
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Tavus introduces the world's fastest
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Thanks to less than one second of latency, Tavus Conversational
Replicas, built on CVI, can be used for everything from hotel
check-in kiosks with a digital human, to engaging in mock
conversations for sales training, negotiation, or presentation
practice. Imagine a world where users can interact with an AI human
at the DMV to renew a driver’s license or talk with their favorite
celebrity or expert through a digital twin. The use cases are
endless.
“Conversational Replicas represent a paradigm shift in the way
we interact with machines,” said Hassaan Raza, Co-founder and CEO
of Tavus. “Rather than adapting to the limitations of traditional
interfaces, we are creating solutions that leverage the natural
ways humans communicate – through visual and verbal cues, emotional
understanding, and contextual awareness. This new video interface
will enable more intuitive, efficient, and impactful interactions.
In short, CVI allows users to leverage and scale their digital
likeness, creating a true extension of themselves that overcomes
the limitations of space, time, and memory. It also opens new doors
for developers to create unparalleled customer experiences.”
Empowering Developers to Scale Human Abilities
As consumers feel more isolated and detached with the saturation
of digital products and services, they seek connectedness. Tavus
provides developers with all the tools they need to easily build
innovative, immersive, and highly engaging conversational video
experiences that mimic real-life interactions. With CVI, the
company delivers robust, well-documented, and intuitive APIs while
handling all of the intricacies associated with AI video research.
As a result, developers can create powerful, scalable, and
realistic experiences out of the box.
The Tavus CVI is the world’s leading conversational solution
because it’s:
- The fastest in existence: Communicate with less than one
second of latency between statements and responses.
- The only end-to-end developer solution: Deploy without
any deep engineering work.
- The facilitator of the most realistic conversations:
Deliver the nuances of a realistic face-to-face interaction with an
AI agent that can see, hear, and respond like a real person,
complete with rolling vision, end-of-turn detection,
interruptibility, and a purpose-built conversational pipeline and
fine tuned LLM.
- The easiest to train: Leverage Tavus’ expertise in
creating high-fidelity, realistic digital replicas with just two
minutes of video.
Other reasons developers want to build with Tavus’ CVI
include:
- A developer-first modular build: Use Tavus’ optimized
building blocks, or bring your own services. Tavus makes it easy to
integrate your own solution, like connecting your own LLM or models
like GPT-4o or Claude.
- Scalable and manageable: Handle high traffic with ease
using Tavus’ production scalability and parallel stream
management.
- Safe and secure: Benefit from safety checks that ensure
users can only make a digital twin of themselves while relying on
comprehensive security protocols, including SOC 2 compliance. Tavus
also supplies automated content moderation and anti-hallucination
quality checks.
“There are a lot of components within a conversation. It’s
incredibly complicated for an AI system to power a Digital Clone
that can carry on a natural, live conversation over video,” said
Dara Ladjevardian, Co-founder and CEO of Delphi. “Tavus tackles
this challenge beautifully. We chose to partner with them because
they have developed the world’s first conversational solution with
under a second of latency. Their research and technology delivers
an incredibly realistic, interactive experience. This is critical
to our ability to deliver authentic personalized mentorship
experiences with expert clones on our platform. The
customer-centric nature of Tavus is also night and day above the
rest – they’re a key trusted partner to Delphi.”
The Next Frontier
A pioneer in asynchronous AI video generation, Tavus continues
to push the envelope, seeking to create a new human-computer
interface that seamlessly takes advantage of new hardware advances,
AI research, and LLMs (memory, scalability, speed, knowledge,
intelligence, and agentic capabilities) to mirror the nuances and
intricacies of human interaction.
Tavus’ CVI creates a lifelike digital twin that goes beyond
simple chatbots or pre-recorded videos, leveraging AI to create a
dynamic replica that embodies the person's likeness, knowledge,
context, and background. It can see and process visual and voice
information, answer questions, provide insights, and engage in
conversations, just as the real individual would. The replica draws
upon a person or company’s expertise, experiences, and unique
perspective to deliver authentic, personalized responses,
essentially acting as a proxy.
Because Conversational Replicas function in real time, use
rolling vision for context, and are given a persona, they closely
mimic the experience of conversing face-to-face with humans. This
is a huge step beyond text-based or even audio-based chatting.
To try a live demo and speak to a digital twin, go to
www.tavus.io.
To see the launch video and recorded demo, go to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZthIm5W-yQ.
To learn more about CVI, go to
www.tavus.io/product/conversational-video.
To see it on Product Hunt, go to
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/conversational-replicas-by-tavus.
About Tavus
Tavus is a market leading generative AI video research company
on a mission to bring the human face and voice to online
experiences at scale. The company builds frontier AI models and
APIs for product development teams, which enables the creation of
personal digital twins that power advanced video generation and
real-time video conversations. Developer customers are building
engaging, human-like experiences that are revolutionizing digital
platforms in video production, marketing, sales, education, health,
consumer experiences, financial services and the creator economy.
With a focus on realism and safety, Tavus works with Fortune 500
companies and innovative startups. Headquartered in San Francisco,
the company is backed by Scale Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Y
Combinator, High Alpha, HubSpot, and more.
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