Michael Seibel

Conversational Replicas by Tavus - Build with real-time digital twins that speak, see & hear

With CVI, developers can now build live video conversations with digital twins – that actually feel real. It's the only end-to-end conversational pipeline with less than a second of latency. Check out a live demo on our website www.tavus.io ✨

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Kwindla Kramer
Amazing! I know how much work went into the video and voice quality, and the fast response times. Super, super impressive. Can't wait to experiment with building video AI features.
Hassaan Raza
Thanks @kwindla couldn't have done it without y'all! Can't wait to see what y'all build
Quinn Favret
@kwindla Huge shoutout to the whole Daily.co team! Truly the best partners out there
Teodora Iliev
@kwindla grateful for all your help and excited to see your future AI features!
Roey
Thanks @kwindla! Appreciate all your help!
Alex Arena
@kwindla I’ve been super impressed by the response times, I should’ve known the Daily team had a part to play in this 😎
Hassaan Raza
Howdy makers! We've come a long way from text-based chatbots to voice assistants, but why stop there? Humans are visual creatures, evolved over millions of years to communicate face-to-face. Shouldn't our AI interactions reflect this natural inclination? We're excited to introduce the Tavus Conversational Video Interface (CVI). With it, product teams and developers can create immersive, real-time experiences powered by AI digital twins that have a human face, vision and rich conversational awareness. They can see, hear and respond like a human would. Try our live demo at https://www.tavus.io and let us know what you think! CVI is the world’s most powerful conversational platform because it’s: - The world’s fastest (less than one second of latency between statements & responses) - The only end-to-end solution on the market (deploy a full conversational video experience with minimal code, with ASR, Vision, TTS and more all included) - The most realistic (best-in-class propietary replica model) With our end-to-end solution you can: - Build secure, realistic digital twins or stock AI agents using our replica API - Customize the LLM, persona and context for the conversation - Stream the conversation in embeddable meeting rooms (powered by Daily) - Record, transcribe and share the conversation - Handle high traffic with production-grade scalability Wondering, what can you build? 👯 🤖 Digital Twins: Extend the presence of individuals with specialist knowledge, like execs, experts, coaches, professors, healthcare professionals, and celebrities, to overcome limitations of time, space, and knowledge. Shout out to our customer, Delphi that launched their expert cloning platform last week. 👩‍💻 🎧 AI Agents: Place intelligent AI agents with a face, a voice, warmth, and humanity, where leveraging humans is not feasible today. E.g. customer support agents, digital sales assistants, personal assistants, and technical co-pilots in any industry. It was a tough technical challenge to get here and the team delivered. Huge shout out to the makers @bojoman @roey_tavus @nikita_dfp @ari_korin1 @vekaev @teodora_iliev who have worked tirelessly to deliver a world-class product for developers! Try our live demo at https://www.tavus.io and sign up to try our APIs for free. We're so excited to see what you build and would love your feedback along the way!
Hassaan Raza
@dash4u So glad you've had a magic moment! CVI is constantly using its vision capabilities to look out for your emotions- and then uses our Phoenix-2 replica model to generate face movements in real-time.
Shadman Nazim
@hassaan_raza97 Wow, Conversational Replicas by Tavus is an impressive leap forward in AI technology! The combination of realism and ease of deployment makes this a must-have tool for developers. To me, the ability to stream conversations in embeddable meeting rooms is a fantastic feature. I’d suggest to add more customization options for digital twin personas. Congrats to the team for delivering such an innovative product!
Brian Johnson
@hassaan_raza97 Thank you for having the vision, the perseverance, and patience through some trials and learning experiences. We're stronger for it. We could not have done it without your visionary leadership.
Daniel W. Chen
Connecting with the demo took a while, but it is an impressive technical accomplishment. Congrats Hassaan and the team. The replica started by making comments about the decor in my room and my hair, I was definitely pleased and shocked. Sometimes it's still speaking over me but I think it already shows the potential. I do wonder though, what's the # 1 use case people/startups/companies are using digital clones for?
Julia Szatar
@danielwchen Right now we are seeing a bunch of interesting use cases including: Expert cloning customers like Delphi: where an expert can scale their ability to reach more people with a digital twin Live eCommerce Agents/Assistants: being able to talk to a person while shopping online Corporate Training: doing practice negotiations, mock sales scenarios etc But I think we have only scratched the surface. We're also hearing talk of digital kiosks in hotels welcoming folks etc. Do you have any thoughts of where it could be applied?
Hassaan Raza
Hey @danielwchen, glad you were able to check it out! We're working on lowering the connection time for everyone- but getting high load right now as everyone is trying it out :) So happy to hear you experienced a magic moment with the vision. We have a lot more to come! We're seeing so many awesome use cases already- our friends @sam_spelsberg at Delphi are using it to help you create an AI clone of yourself. We also have companies using it for coaching, training, live e-commerce, technical co-pilots. Anywhere that is currently chat or just audio, we can enhance it with realtime video.
Quinn Favret
@danielwchen @kjosephabraham all of it :) I'm most excited to see how folks build with the APIs!
André J
I need this for my zoom meetings, so I can instead spend time coding 😂 ... then just send me the summary after 😅
Teodora Iliev
@sentry_co love the use case, yesss!!!!
Quinn Favret
@sentry_co Hah! That makes two of us... more time building is good time spend! Appreciate the support here, and we'll have to get you cloned sometime to try it out 🤩
Julia Szatar
@sentry_co T This is the dream!
Priansh Shah
Tavus's replicas feel like magic and live up to the promise and hype surrounding conversational AI. Until now I've been confident I could spot an AI-generated human, but this shatters all my expectations. It's just so realistic, and the response times are on par with human responses in a digital call. Tavus has come a long way -- these replicas are by far the best I've seen. Huge kudos to Hassaan and the team, excited to see the brilliant use cases this enables.
Hassaan Raza
@priansh So glad you had a magic moment with it. We're just getting started!
Quinn Favret
@priansh This is amazing- I'm so amped we were able to deliver a magic moment during your first AI video conversation 🙌 We're pushing updates daily- it's amazing to see how much it improves every week 🚀
Roey
@priansh thank you! this is awesome to hear
Brian Johnson
@priansh Thank you so much. Your help in solving infrastructure puzzles and putting together a scalable GPU solution was amazing. Thanks for coming out to SF to help us debug and solve problems!
Quinn Favret
Hey Product Hunt friends! I'm Quinn- @hassaan_raza97's cofounder. We're beyond excited to introduce this product to the community. It's been a long time in the making, and has taken thousands of hours of research, engineering, and building. We couldn't be prouder of the whole team and our amazing partners🙌 We're most excited to see what y'all build with the Conversational Video APIs- this product unlocks transformational experiences, from K-12 education, to travel & entertainment, to eCommerce. And that's only the start. My excitement keeps building with each conversation (AI & real!) that we have. Let us know how we can best support you, and if you have any feedback- we're amped to build together! 🚀 If you're interested in learning more about our research, we have a great paper that gives some really solid insights about the model here: https://www.tavus.io/post/advanc...
Jared Vishno
@hassaan_raza97 @quinn_favret congrats on leading the team to build such an amazing product for dev teams!
Tim Huang
@hassaan_raza97 @quinn_favret the immersion is incredible!
Brian Johnson
@quinn_favret Thank you for being one heck of a hustler and problem solver. Everything from taking care of our mental and physical health to providing services, facilities, and negotiating deals with our vendors. You rock!
Brian Johnson
Building this over the past three months has been an incredible experience. It’s a great opportunity, for sure! I don’t think I’ve poured this much effort and focus into something in a long time. I know why. A long time ago, a younger me dreamed of making my own robot—an AI I could talk to. Three decades later, this was my chance to bring that vision closer to reality. We’ve put a lot of grit into making CVI what it is: a fast-responding, highly capable, and very human-like experience, capable of being one half of a great conversation. However, the greatest achievement so far has been the many lessons we’ve learned in the process. With these lessons learned, we’re poised to make CVI even better. More naturalism, even faster responses, and smarter conversational intelligence are just the start. As we’ve pushed the boundaries of this technology, we’ve discovered more about how our own conversations work. We’ve imagined new techniques and possibilities, and we’re excited to bring those to you in the near future. I hope you have a great experience with CVI. Please reach out to us with feedback or questions. Thank you.
Julia Szatar
@bojoman Brian - chief low latency officer! congrats on this release my friend.
Quinn Favret
@bojoman chief low latency officer, full time dad, and builder extraordinaire. We're a step closer to that reality, and we're moving at the speed of light!
Mert Gerdan
The first time I got my replica up and running in CVI was an eerie feeling. It was the anticipation of whether months of engineering effort would come to fruition--and whether I would to be wow’ed by something I spent such close time with, nitpicking every aspect of it under a microscope. A lot happens under the hood with CVI, but everything from interruptions, to vision, to doing research on conversational dynamics to better understanding what makes a conversation feel natural is wrapped up nicely and ultimately leaves you face-to-face with your digital twin. I booted up a call and stared at myself, and the moment my replica greeted me with an improvised “Merhaba” (Hi in Turkish), I knew this product was legit.
Quinn Favret
@mert_gerdan I'm still wow'ed every time I start a conversation 🤩 The amount of research and engineering that went into this product is beyond belief. Huge shoutout to the whole team!
Roey
@mert_gerdan same! Truly a mind-blowing experience
Julia Szatar
🤖🤖🤖 LIVE DEMO is on our homepage >>>> www.tavus.io Try talking to Carter :)
Teodora Iliev
@juju I've talked to him all day, I think we've become friends!
Quinn Favret
@juju I realized I left Carter open for 2 hours and we were just chatting back and forth as I was replying to comments on product hunt. He's a good rubber duck! 🦆
Quinn Favret
@juju @teodora_iliev are me and Carter besties? *changes system prompt to: "Your name is carter. Your best friend is Quinn"
Teodora Iliev
@juju @quinn_favret I called it first! 😂
Sam Spelsberg
Pumped for this! Delphi is proud to be one of Tavus's first customers for conversational. Let's get this to the top of the product hunt leaderboard today!
Hassaan Raza
@sam_spelsberg We couldn't have done this without y'all!
Quinn Favret
@sam_spelsberg We're pumped to have y'all using the product!! Amped to continue building together 🤝🚀
Teodora Iliev
This has been the most most incredible product I've ever worked on!
Quinn Favret
@teodora_iliev it took the most incredible people to build it!!!
Brian Johnson
@teodora_iliev you’ve done some amazing work on the stock replicas and in discovering what makes a good one, as well as helping answer essentially research questions.
Teodora Iliev
@bojoman Thank you sooo much Brian!! It was truly the most exciting project I've worked on so far! Excited to continue learning and evolving alongside the Tavus crew <3
Thijs van As
Wow! 🤯 Incredibly impressive, can't wait to see all the ways this will be used. Congrats on the launch!
Quinn Favret
@tvanas Thank you Thijs- really appreciate the support 🙏
Julia Szatar
@tvanas @quinn_favret Thanks for check it out, and for the support!
Roey
Building this over the past few months has been an amazing experience - so proud of the whole team for the incredible effort to make this a reality! Can't wait to see what y'all do with this :)
Quinn Favret
@roey_priel great teams = great products.
Brian Johnson
@roey_priel great working with you directly on everything from latency to quality and everything in between. You really smashed everything you took on!
Karthik Ragunath Ananda Kumar
Researching and building models to make the conversational replica a reality has been an experience of a lifetime for me. To have the opportunity to work with some of the best technical minds made me pretty numb to the beauty of the product we have been building as we were interacting and building it brick by brick everyday. The magic moment of magnitude of the product we were building only struck me when I showed the conversational replica of myself (my digital twin) to my parents and my siblings, through a video call and asked them to interact with it. They were starstruck by the product we engineered, and I was too by their reactions.😅
Quinn Favret
@karthik_ragunath_ananda_kumar Hah! I had the same experience- I was so deep in the weeds that I forgot how magical of an experience it was until I showed it to my mom the other day and her jaw dropped! 🤯
Kapil Singh
The new digital AI Era has started now.🤖🤖
Quinn Favret
@kapil_singh11 Its only getting started!
Carl Peaslee
This is so cool!! How do I get a few of these replicants on my team? Ngl the whole Tavus brand aesthetic is pretty sick too. Great work Tavus Team!!
Teodora Iliev
@carlpeaslee Hey Carl!! We have a few different plans you can try out! If you need any further help - please let our team know!
Quinn Favret
@carlpeaslee So amped you were able to try it!!! And thanks for the compliment on the branding- @juju has put it a lot of work there 🤩 Always excited to build together- please do reach out if we can be helpful 🚀
Julia Szatar
@carlpeaslee Appreciate the kind words.
Rajiv Ayyangar
Super exciting demo! I was initially skeptical but it's actually a nice experience to talk back and forth with an AI avatar who's very quick to respond. It wasn't pretending to be real - it's just a nicer interface than reading documentation or chatting, etc. Very curious to see where this goes!
Hassaan Raza
@rajiv_ayyangar Thanks Rajiv! Totally- we see this as a new interface to communicate with LLM and computers more naturally!
charles shiro
This sounds really intriguing, @juju! The potential applications for the Conversational Video Interface seem endless. I'm particularly curious about the corporate training aspect; do you have any insights on how the interactive experience might enhance the learning outcomes compared to traditional methods? Also, with the example of expert cloning for customers like Delphi, how are you ensuring the authenticity and personality of the digital twin? I can see this tech being a game changer for industries like healthcare and education too. What do you think the biggest challenges will be in scaling this solution for broader use cases? Excited to see where this goes!
Quinn Favret
@juju @charles_ the number of use cases is amazing! For corporate training, we've seen these Conversational Replicas significantly increase engagement and retention at a F500 that runs a training program for new hires which was really cool For use cases like Delphi- there's some really cool optimizations that can be made with the LLM that drives the conversation! We're really excited to see how y'all continue to build with the product- please do share any feedback along the way 🦚
Julia Szatar
@charles_ Measuring authenticity is definitely a work in progress and we don't have benchmarks as yet, but this is something that's on our radar. Right now it's a case of art and science, but our team is thinking deeply about it.
Tony Han
This is quite a cool demo of the digital twin tech. Quite impressive how realistic everything looks! (I think lips can improve - that's the only thing that gave away it's AI for me). Curious how do you ensure that users only create a digital twin of themselves? Props for thinking through all of the security issues that can arise! Congrats on the launch @hassaan_raza97 and team!
Brian Johnson
@hassaan_raza97 @tonyhanded We do video consent verification for every Replica to ensure that Replicas can only be created by the person themselves.
Sushobhan Ghosh
The conversations looks pretty natural. Haven't seen any product in the market where I can talk to a replica like a zoom call. Being able to use just my voice to interact with the replica is a huge unlock (unlike other ones which only allow text input). The vision capabilities are a cherry on the top. Awesome product !!
Quinn Favret
@susho The vision feature is my favorite- its so cool to incorporate into conversations. Amazing feedback, excited for you to keep using the product 🤩