Francesco Ciannella

Francesco Ciannella is a senior engineer at NVIDIA, where he works on conversational AI solutions built around large language models (LLMs) and audio language models (ALMs). He holds a M.S. in engineering of telecommunications from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and an M.S. in language technologies from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Posts by Francesco Ciannella

Conversational AI Jul 14, 2025

Enhancing Multilingual Human-Like Speech and Voice Cloning with NVIDIA Riva TTS

While speech AI is used to build digital assistants and voice agents, its impact extends far beyond these applications. Core technologies like text-to-speech... 10 MIN READ
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Generative AI Feb 26, 2025

Building a Simple VLM-Based Multimodal Information Retrieval System with NVIDIA NIM

In today’s data-driven world, the ability to retrieve accurate information from even modest amounts of data is vital for developers seeking streamlined,... 15 MIN READ