NVIDIA Riva
NVIDIA® Riva, part of the NVIDIA AI platform, is a GPU-accelerated speech AI SDK for building and deploying fully customizable, real-time AI pipelines that deliver world-class accuracy in all clouds, on premises, at the edge, and on embedded devices.
Ways to Get Started With NVIDIA Riva
Purchase Riva for Deployment at Scale
Get unlimited usage on all clouds, access to NVIDIA AI experts, and long-term support for large-scale deployments with a purchase of NVIDIA Riva.
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Get Access to Riva AI Workflows
Accelerate development time with packaged AI workflows for audio transcription and intelligent virtual assistants, available with a purchase of NVIDIA Riva.
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Learn More About the Intelligent Virtual Assistant Workflow
Download Containers and Models for Development
Develop voice-enabled applications for cloud, data center, or embedded deployments with Riva containers and pretrained models, available for free on NVIDIA NGC™ to members of the NVIDIA Developer Program.
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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.
Introductory Blog
Learn about Riva’s architecture, key features, and components for building speech AI services.
Introductory Webinar
Build and deploy end-to-end speech AI pipelines using NVIDIA Riva.
Development Starter Kits
Access everything you need to start developing your speech AI application with NVIDIA Riva containers and models, including tutorials, notebooks, forums, release notes, and documentation.
Automatic Speech Recognition
Achieve high transcription accuracy for English, Spanish, Mandarin, Hindi, Russian, Korean, German, Portuguese, and French and two out-of-the-box expressive professional female and male voices for U.S. English with state-of-the-art models pretrained on thousands of hours of audio on NVIDIA supercomputers.
- Speech Recognition Documentation
- Quick Start Guide
- Tutorial: Use Riva ASR Out-Of-The-Box
- Tutorial: Riva ASR Customization
- Sample App: Riva Contact
- Sample App: Virtual Assistant with Rasa
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Text-to-Speech
Customize across ASR pipelines for different languages, accents, domains, vocabulary, and context for the best possible accuracy for your use case, and across TTS pipelines for the voice and intonation you want.
- TTS Documentation
- Quick Start Guide
- Documentation: TTS Service Sample
- Documentation: TTS SSML Sample
- Sample App: Virtual Assistant with RASA
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End-to-End Testing and Prototyping for Deployment
Explore free NVIDIA LaunchPad labs that let you test and prototype your speech AI-based solutions in the same high-performance NVIDIA Riva software stack that’s deployable today.

Interact With Real-Time Speech AI APIs

Customizing ASR With NVIDIA Riva

Customizing Text-to-Speech With NVIDIA Riva

Intelligent Virtual Assistant

Audio Transcription
Early Access Programs
Riva Studio
Riva Studio is a low-code service that simplifies and accelerates the creation, customization, and deployment of enterprise speech AI applications.
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Bot Maker
NVIDIA Bot Maker is an SDK that enables you to build conversational AI applications such as chatbots, multimodal virtual assistants, and interactive avatars.
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