NVIDIA Riva

NVIDIA® Riva is a set of GPU-accelerated multilingual speech and translation microservices for building fully customizable, real-time conversational AI pipelines. Riva includes automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), and neural machine translation (NMT) and is deployable in all clouds, in data centers, at the edge, or on embedded devices. With Riva, organizations can add speech and translation capabilities with large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to transform chatbots into powerful multilingual assistants and avatars.

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Try NVIDIA Riva Automatic Speech Recognition


Select the language and check out how Riva ASR delivers highly accurate transcription in real time by providing an input through your microphone or uploading a .wav file from your device.

Note: The duration of each sample is limited to 30 seconds.

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Try NVIDIA Riva Text-to-Speech

Select a voice and type in a test sentence to hear Riva’s out-of-the-box English female or male voice.

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Ways to Get Started With NVIDIA Riva

Find the right tools to build and deploy fully customizable, multilingual speech and translation AI applications.

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Quickly experience NVIDIA Riva from your browser—without any setup—with sample data via API and UI-based demos for free.


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Get Access to Riva AI Workflows

Access Speech AI Workflows for Development

Accelerate development time with packaged speech AI workflows available as a free trial on NVIDIA LaunchPad.


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Purchase Riva for Deployment at Scale

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Move from pilot to production with the assurance of security, API stability, and support with NVIDIA AI Enterprise.


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Introductory Resources

Quick-Start Guide

Get step-by-step instructions for deploying pretrained models as services on a local workstation and how to interact with them through a client.

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Introductory Blog

Learn about Riva’s architecture, key features, and components for building speech and translation AI services.

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Introductory Webinar

Build and deploy end-to-end speech and translation AI pipelines using Riva.

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Use-Case Demo

See how Computacenter, Tarteel, Floatbot, Minerva CQ and others use Riva for multilingual transcription, translation, and voice of their agent assists, AI virtual assistants, and digital humans.

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Development Starter Kits

Access everything you need to start developing your speech and translation AI application with Riva containers and models, including tutorials, notebooks, forums, release notes, and documentation.

Automatic Speech Recognition

Achieve high transcription accuracy for Arabic, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish with state-of-the-art models pretrained on thousands of hours of audio on NVIDIA supercomputers.


  Speech Recognition Documentation

  Quick Start Guide

  Speech Recognition Tutorials

Text-to-Speech

Customize across English, German, Italian, Mandarin, and Spanish TTS pipelines for the voice and intonation you want.


  TTS Documentation

  Quick Start Guide

  TTS Tutorials

Neural Machine Translation

Integrate highly accurate text-to-text, speech-to-text, or speech-to-speech translation for up to 32 languages into your conversational application pipelines.


  NMT Documentation

  Quick Start Guide

  NMT Tutorials


Demo Video Tutorials

Learn to set up and start using Riva—from accessing NVIDIA NGC and working with the Riva Skills Quick Start guide, to running inference with ASR, TTS, and NMT models.


The Basics of NVIDIA NGC

The Basics of NVIDIA NGC

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Quick Start Guide for Riva

Quick Start Guide for Riva

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Exploring Riva’s Capabilities

Exploring Riva’s Capabilities

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Self-Paced Training

Learn anytime, anywhere, with just a computer and an internet connection through the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI).


Riva Speech API Demo

Riva Speech API Demo

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Get Started with Highly Accurate Custom ASR for Speech AI

Get Started With Highly Accurate Custom ASR for Speech AI

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Ethical AI

NVIDIA platforms and application frameworks enable developers to build a wide array of AI applications. Consider potential algorithmic bias when choosing or creating the models being deployed. Also, work with the model’s developer to ensure that it meets the requirements for the relevant industry and use case; that the necessary instruction and documentation are provided to understand error rates, confidence intervals, and results; and that the model is being used under the conditions and in the manner intended.

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