Sven Chilton

Sven Chilton is a deep learning developer advocate at NVIDIA. He develops, plays with, educates about, and evangelizes for fundamental NVIDIA deep learning tools, in particular the Riva speech AI framework. Sven has long loved mathematics and languages and considers speech AI and NLP beautiful fusions of the two. He earned a bachelor's degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and master's and doctoral degrees in nuclear engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Posts by Sven Chilton

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
Two people sitting at their desks with icons for speech translation in the background.
Agentic AI / Generative AI Feb 20, 2025

Deploying NVIDIA Riva Multilingual ASR with Whisper and Canary Architectures While Selectively Deactivating NMT

NVIDIA has consistently developed automatic speech recognition (ASR) models that set the benchmark in the industry. Earlier versions of NVIDIA Riva, a... 12 MIN READ
Agentic AI / Generative AI Sep 18, 2024

Quickly Voice Your Apps with NVIDIA NIM Microservices for Speech and Translation

NVIDIA NIM, part of NVIDIA AI Enterprise, provides containers to self-host GPU-accelerated inferencing microservices for pretrained and customized AI models... 11 MIN READ
Image of two boxes with text, in two languages, with speech icons joining them to a central box symbolizing translation. The English language box displays, "One language is never enough."
AR / VR Aug 29, 2023

How to Deploy NVIDIA Riva Speech and Translation AI in the Public Cloud

From start-ups to large enterprises, businesses use cloud marketplaces to find the new solutions needed to quickly transform their businesses. Cloud... 16 MIN READ
Data Center / Cloud Dec 15, 2022

Reducing Development Time for Intelligent Virtual Assistants in Contact Centers

As the global service economy grows, companies rely increasingly on contact centers to drive better customer experiences, increase customer satisfaction, and... 8 MIN READ
Simulation / Modeling / Design Dec 08, 2022

Introducing NVIDIA Riva: A GPU-Accelerated SDK for Developing Speech AI Applications

This post was updated in March 2023. Sign up for the latest Speech AI news from NVIDIA. Speech AI is used in a variety of applications, including contact... 8 MIN READ