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Date Published
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Kwindla Hultman Kramer
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929
Language
English
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Summary

The NVIDIA AI Blueprint, Voice Agents for Conversational AI, developed in collaboration with Pipecat and NVIDIA NIM, provides a comprehensive framework for building advanced conversational AI experiences. Pipecat, an open-source orchestration layer, facilitates real-time and multimodal AI applications such as customer service agents and virtual avatars, offering features like multi-turn context management and event bridges for function calling. Integrated with NVIDIA NIM microservices, this blueprint enhances the ease and flexibility of deploying AI models in production, supporting various environments from cloud to on-premises. Key components include NVIDIA Riva Parakeet for speech recognition, NVIDIA Llama for language processing, and FastPitch-HifiGAN for voice generation, all contributing to a seamless conversational experience even in noisy settings. The blueprint's modular architecture allows developers to customize AI agents by leveraging NVIDIA's extensive API catalog and advanced conversational AI building blocks, ensuring robust, low-latency interactions.