Nestle Debuts Virtual Human Cookie Coach
Nestle Toll House introduced a virtual human named Ruth to help people bake cookies this week .
Ruth was built in partnership with Soul Machines, a New Zealand developer of virtual humans. Soul Machines has provided tech for many virtual human projects, including Ella, The New Zealand police department virtual officer that interacts with visitors to a police station. For Ruth’s AI and interactive ability, Nestle used Google Dialogflow for natural language processing, but Amazon Polly for the text-to-speech because it had better pacing and avoided uncanny valley territory, according to Bertelsen.
Both the AI and visual elements are improving rapidly, with MetaHuman Creator drawing a lot of buzz for its realistic human appearance and startups like CoCo Hub showing just how flexible the combination of vocal and visual graphics can be. LG stood out at CES this year because Reah Keem, a virtual influencer created by the company performed part of the keynote.
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