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Starter kit: How to create an AI language tutor

Learn how to build a scalable, human-like AI language tutor with Tavus using this detailed technical guide covering setup, integration, and best practices.

Revolutionizing recruiting: Using an AI interview platform

The next generation of AI interview platforms will blend AI insights with human judgment. Explainable AI—technology that can show how and why decisions are made—will be crucial for building trust.

Leveraging WebRTC for seamless conversational video interactions

WebRTC conversational video is changing how we connect online. In just a few clicks, people can talk face-to-face, share ideas, and work together in real time—no extra downloads or plugins required.

Starter kit: How to create an AI teacher

Learn how to create a lifelike, customizable AI teacher with Tavus’s Conversational Video Interface to deliver engaging, personalized education anytime.

Starter kit: How to create an AI personal assistant

Learn how to build a lifelike AI personal assistant with customizable personas and video intelligence to boost productivity and streamline your daily workflow.

Starter kit: How to create an AI coach

Learn how to create a personalized AI coach with Tavus, offering real-time feedback and lifelike support to accelerate personal or team growth anytime.

Conversational video AI with built-in emotion detection

When video AI can read facial expressions and emotional cues in real time, it brings a new level of connection to the table, making digital conversations feel much more personal and responsive.

Starter kit: How to create an AI IT support assistant

Learn how to build an AI IT support assistant with lifelike video, emotional awareness, and custom personas to streamline IT help and boost employee satisfaction.

Starter kit: How to create an AI conversation partner

Learn how to create a lifelike AI conversation partner with Tavus, customize digital personas, and enhance communication for learning, business, or coaching.

Starter kit: How to create an AI mock interview

Learn how to create an AI mock interview with customizable personas, instant feedback, and lifelike video practice to boost your confidence and interview skills.

How to make an AI clone of yourself

Platforms like Tavus make it possible to create high-quality AI replicas with just a few minutes of your own video.

AI concierge chatbots: The future of personalized assistance

AI concierge chatbots are ushering in a new era of assistance: one that feels personal, proactive, and available across every channel you use.

Starter kit: How to create an AI therapist

Learn how to build a compliant, empathetic AI therapist with Tavus using this step-by-step guide covering setup, integration, privacy, and real-time video support.

Starter kit: How to create an AI nutritionist

Learn how to create a lifelike AI nutritionist using Tavus tools to deliver personalized, engaging nutrition advice through conversational video and custom personas.

Starter kit: How to create an AI executive coach

Learn how to build an AI executive coach that delivers personalized, real-time leadership support and scales coaching across your entire organization with Tavus.

Understanding conversational AI latency: Why sub-second matters

Latency refers to the time it takes for an AI system to respond after you’ve spoken. In the world of conversational AI, this delay is shaped by a few core processes, each with its own impact on speed.

How to deploy a Tavus bot as an internal sales/BDR coach

Step-by-step instructions on how to deploy a Tavus AI coach to scale personalized video feedback for sales reps. Automate training, improve pitches, and boost conversions—powered by your data.

Starter kit: How to create an AI teaching assistant

Learn how to create an AI teaching assistant that personalizes learning, streamlines classroom tasks, and adapts to your unique teaching style with Tavus.

The impact of conversational AI in healthcare communication

Conversational AI in healthcare is about more than just technology—it’s about creating better experiences for both patients and providers.

Virtual coaching with AI: Enhancing human interaction online

Virtual coaching AI is making professional development more accessible, human, and effective than ever.

Conversational video AI for personalized sales demos

Transform your sales demos with conversational video AI to deliver personalized, interactive experiences that boost engagement, streamline outreach, and accelerate deal closures.

How to integrate conversational video AI into customer onboarding

The best onboarding journeys are tailored, interactive, and easy to follow. Here’s how to design yours with conversational video AI.

Conversational video AI platform with real-time responses

With real-time conversational video AI, traditional chatbot boundaries disappear, making digital experiences feel more natural and connected.

The (Tavus) Hackathon Cookbook

So you want to build a Conversational Video Interface? You’re in good company, startups like Mercor and Delphi and fortune 500s alike are leveraging Tavus APIs to build the future of AI interaction.

Best AI tools for coaching

Let’s face it—admin tasks can drain valuable coaching time. AI tools take care of scheduling, reminders, generating content, and following up after sessions, so coaches can focus on building relationships and driving strategy.

Low-latency video AI API

With a video AI API, you can automate video creation, personalize at scale, and analyze content in real time.

Hummingbird-0: Advancing Zero-Shot Lip Synchronization in AI-Generated Video

We made an unexpected discovery while developing our premium conversational AI technology. Components of our advanced video pipeline could be isolated and explicitly optimized for lip synchronization, with remarkable results. This serendipitous research byproduct evolved into Hummingbird, a specialized zero-shot lip-sync model that achieves state-of-the-art performance compared to other leading solutions.

Sparrow-0: Advancing Conversational Responsiveness in Video Agents with Transformer-Based Turn-Taking

In this paper, we dive into the development and research behind Sparrow-0, exploring the innovative transformer-based approach for turn-taking and its integration alongside Raven and Phoenix models within our Conversational Video Interface (CVI), an end-to-end operating system designed for building responsive video agents.

Introducing the evolution of Conversational Video Interface – now with Emotional Intelligence

Introducing our new family of state-of-the-art AI models: Phoenix-3, Raven-0, and Sparrow-0. Together they bring Conversational Video Interfaces (CVI) to the next level, and power Charlie, our new demo persona.

Introducing AI Santa: The Magic of Christmas, Powered by Tavus

What if Santa could talk to everyone all at once? Now He Can! We are thrilled to announce AI Santa by Tavus, the world’s first fully AI-powered replica of the man in the red suit.

11+ Best Text to Speech APIs [2024]

Unlock the power of speech with our top picks for the best Text-to-Speech APIs of 2024! Find the perfect voice solution for your app today.

Open-Sourcing AI Innovation: Building Real-Time AI Interactions with Pipecat and Tavus

Pipecat + Tavus empowers developers to build modular, real-time conversational AI systems with low latency, vendor neutrality, and support for 40+ LLMs, STT, and TTS services.

VEED Leaps Ahead in AI Avatar Development by Leveraging Tavus APIs

What is an AI Tool? How Artificial Intelligence Tools Work

Discover the power of AI tools and understand how they revolutionize tasks with our comprehensive 2025 guide to artificial intelligence tools.

What Makes Conversational AI Human Like?

The Tavus team leveraged multiple techniques to get life-like conversational interface with an AI. In particular, streaming, parallelism, resource management, and memory management. This combination helped reduce a long utterance to utterance time down to under a second.

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Build a Custom Personality for Real Time Video AI

Customize your conversational AI's personality using a custom persona with system prompts, context, and your own LLM.

Build Your First Real Time Conversational Digital Twin in Five Minutes

A tutorial on how you can build a conversational AI in just a few minutes with details of what each of the parameters do.

Introducing: The world's fastest Conversational Video Interface for developers

Humanize digital interactions with real-time interactive digital twins that can speak, see, and hear.

How to Make AI Videos (Step-by-Step Guide)

Deploy AI video creation into your apps in 2025! Follow our easy step-by-step guide to integrate and produce stunning AI-generated videos that captivate audiences.

18+ Best AI Marketing Tools & Software [2024]

Discover the top AI marketing tools for 2024! Boost your campaign efficiency, drive sales, and outperform your competition today.

Phoenix-2: Advanced Techniques in Talking Head Generation — 3D Gaussian Splatting

This paper will cover the past, present and future of the talking-head generation research field. Specifically, we will dive deep into the trending 3D scene representations (NeRF -> 3DGS) and the benefits of employing 3DGS in avatar applications.

How to do Text to Video for AI Replicas

An introduction to how to make an AI video with Tavus' video API.

16+ Best AI Voice Generators [2025]

Discover the best AI voice generators for your applications to enable users to create custom videos, voiceovers, and even music.

20+ Best AI Avatar Generators (Video & Image) [2025]

Discover the best AI avatar generators in 2025 for integrating personalized avatars into apps and elevating user interactions.

Phoenix-1: Realistic Avatar Generation in the Wild

This research paper, written by the Tavus team, details the development of Phoenix, a groundbreaking generative model for realistic avatar creation and text-to-video generation. Phoenix leverages audio and text-driven 3D models, integrating volumetric rendering techniques and 2D Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to create lifelike replicas from short video clips.

Introducing Phoenix & the Tavus Developer Platform Public Beta

Users generate realistic videos from just a script with their own digital replica

11+ Best AI Video Editing Software

Learn about the best options available for AI video editing software and how developers can integrate this into their applications.

Character AI API Review & Alternatives [2025]

Explore Character AI's API capabilities and discover alternatives for 2025. Understand its strengths, limitations, and find the best API for your needs.

18+ Best AI Software [2024]

Discover the best AI software for 2024 in niches like AI video creation, imaging, sales, workflow automation, writing, data analysis, and chatbots…plus more!