Convai

Through a set of conversational AI APIs, Convai lets developers give games and other interactive apps characters that listen, understand and talk back.

Convai is a developer tool that covers four pieces of the speech pipeline: speech recognition, language understanding and generation, and text to speech.

You wire those together to build speech-enabled applications, conversation-based characters and speech-driven games.

The selling point is made for games, metaverse projects and XR, where a character needs to do more than recite scripted lines.

Convai says its characters work with real-time perception and action abilities, so they can respond to what is happening around them instead of only answering typed prompts.

The category tags also point to AI roleplay and lip sync generation, which matters if you want a character's face to match its voice.

Because it is an API product, you will need to be comfortable writing code and plugging services into your own project.

Expect to do some integration work rather than click through a finished character maker.