Overview

Conversational Video Interface (CVI) is a framework for creating real-time multimodal video interactions with AI. It enables an AI agent to see, hear, and respond naturally, mirroring human conversation.

CVI is the world’s fastest interface of its kind. It allows you to map a human face and conversational ability onto your AI agent. With CVI, you can achieve utterance-to-utterance latency with SLAs under 1 second. This is the full round-trip time for a participant to say something and the replica to reply.

CVI provides a comprehensive solution, with the option to plug in your existing components as required.

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Key Concepts

CVI is built around three core concepts that work together to create real-time, humanlike interactions with an AI agent:

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Key Features

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Layers

The Conversational Video Interface (CVI) is built on a modular layer system, where each layer handles a specific part of the interaction. Together, they capture input, process it, and generate a real-time, human-like response.

Here’s how the layers work together:

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Getting Started

You can quickly create a conversation by using the Tavus Platform or following the steps in the Quickstart guide.