On Tuesday, the United States chip giant Nvidia presented the production microservices NVIDIA Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) that make it possible for video game designers, tool developers, and middleware designers to incorporate generative AI designs into the digital avatars within their video games and applications. Chinese designers NetEase, Tencent, and HoYoverse are amongst the very first significant video gaming studios using this brand-new platform. The ACE platform permits video game designers to produce interactive non-playable characters (NPCs) by utilizing AI designs such as NVIDIA Omniverse Audio2Face (A2F) and NVIDIA Riva automated speech acknowledgment (ASR). These innovations can equate spoken words from gamers into text, allowing AI NPCs to respond utilizing an unique text-to-speech tool, producing completely voiced and interactive video game characters with meaningful facial expressions.[[Nvidia]
Nvidia unveils ACE service, partners with Tencent, NetEase, and HoYoverse to develop AI gaming characters
