Trulience

Trulience is a UK-based technology company that specializes in creating interactive digital avatars powered by artificial intelligence. The company's platform combines computer-generated imagery (CGI), a proprietary Virtual Nervous System, and a Sentiment Analysis Engine to produce lifelike avatars capable of natural spoken conversations in up to 77 languages. These avatars are designed to front conversational AI services and can be integrated into websites or applications.

At the core of Trulience's technology is its ability to connect with various AI models, including ChatGPT and its own fine-tuned, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhanced open-source large language models (LLMs) such as Mixtral 8x7B and Llama 3. The company offers hosted LLM services, allowing organizations to utilize their proprietary data to customize these models while maintaining data privacy. Trulience's solution is scalable, supporting millions of concurrent connections on both desktop and mobile devices, and features full-duplex communication with acoustic echo cancellation, eliminating the need for push-to-talk functions.

The Trulience Gateway, designed to connect to any REST endpoint, supports Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML), enabling developers to control digital human movements and apply additional media content to video streams. This flexibility allows for the creation of a wide range of digital entities, from realistic human avatars to animated animals, cartoons, and even interactive logos.

Initially, Trulience focused on addressing the global teacher shortage by developing an online platform to augment teaching capacity in schools. The company aimed to provide low-cost, personalized, and engaging learning experiences at scale, potentially addressing the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers. However, the company has since expanded its focus to broader applications of its avatar technology across various industries.