Neuphonic Partners with Rapport
Neuphonic has partnered with Speech Graphics' Rapport division to deliver a real-time, photorealistic digital human running entirely on standard CPU hardware.
The collaboration combines Neuphonic's ultra-low latency text-to-speech technology with Rapport's interactive artificial intelligence avatar role play platform powered by real-time facial and full-body animation technology from Speech Graphics. Together, the system generates natural voice, perfectly synchronised lip movement, and emotionally responsive facial performance in less than 100 milliseconds, enabling digital characters that can speak, react, and express emotion with no perceptible delay.
"We're making real-time digital humans practical," said Sohaib Ahmad, CEO and co-founder of Neuphonic, in a statement. "For the first time, you can run a fully interactive, lifelike avatar instantly on everyday hardware. It shifts this from something that required high-end infrastructure to something that can run anywhere and will unlock entirely new use cases across games, media, and AI. It will move us closer to AI that feels like a natural, seamless extension of human interaction."
"Neuphonic was a natural partner because the technologies are highly complementary," said Gregor Hofer, CEO and co-founder of Rapport, iun a statement. "They bring ultra-low latency, on-device voice that runs efficiently on CPU, and we bring production-proven, real-time facial animation. Together, this enables fully local digital humans that can speak, animate, and respond instantly, without relying on the cloud, opening up new possibilities for performance, cost, and deployment at scale. It's a complete, real-time conversational experience."
The technology opens up immediate applications in applications like gaming, film, virtual production, advertising, customer engagement, and education. And because it runs entirely on-device, user data never leaves the environment.
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