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Building Ellie: WWT's Real-Time Multilingual Digital Human
In this technical walkthrough, Fred Allen demonstrates how WWT created a sophisticated digital human named Ellie in just five weeks. Ellie is an innovative, AI-powered avatar capable of real-time, multilingual interactions. Fred explains the intricate process involving multiple technologies, including speech processing, a custom LLM for generating responses and audio-to-face technology for realistic facial animations. He details the hardware setup, software components and the seamless integration that allows Ellie to engage in context-rich conversations across languages.
Video
•2:11
•Mar 19, 2025
The Future of Interaction: Meet Ellie, WWT's Digital Human
Fred Allen III, Software Engineer, gives a demonstration of Ellie, a digital human developed in the AI Proving Ground. This digital human is based on the NVIDIA AI Blueprint for building digital humans. It can be deployed as a fully self-contained solution at the edge or scaled on-demand in corporate or cloud data centers. Its digital human knowledge base is customizable.
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•2:25
•Mar 14, 2025
The Making of Ellie: How WWT Built its Cutting-Edge Digital Human in 5 Weeks Using NVIDIA AI Platforms
Learn how WWT used state-of-the-art AI tools and techniques, including NVIDIA's Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE), to build Ellie, a digital human capable of delivering seamless conversational experiences and authentic, lifelike responses in multiple languages.
WWT Research
•Jan 31, 2025