Emma

About Emma

Bridging the emotional gap in artificial intelligence

Hi HN! I'm Claudia, first employee and founding researcher at Nuance Labs. We're a research startup based in Seattle and have just released what we've been working on for the past 18 months.Emma, a conversational audio-visual AI that you can have a video call with in real time. It might be a little rough around the edges but we think it's better than anything else out there (we're biased, of course). You don't need to make an account and it works from the browser with mic and optionally camera.Emma is built on our full-duplex audio-visual system, Nuplex. We focused on naturalness over existing benchmarks as we found they didn't correlate well with what people actually like or how we speak…