Runtime flow of a Tokkio avatar, with our parts in green: the provider gateway and TTS service feed our LLM and TTS classes inside the ACE Controller, which exchanges audio and animation with A2F-3D and drives the Animation Graph and the Unreal Renderer; the video goes out through VST to the browser.

Running a Custom Avatar on NVIDIA Tokkio: Runtime Integration, Japanese Speech, and Live Operations

How we took the Character Creator 5 avatar from Part 1, packaged as a Linux renderer build, onto a Tokkio 5.0 stage: the renderer’s runtime contract, a replaced LLM and TTS behind the stock ACE Controller, Japanese speech fixes, and the GPU and video failures we met. Every checkpoint names the log or measurement behind it.

NVIDIA Tokkio live avatar streaming interface

Creating a Custom Avatar for NVIDIA Tokkio with Character Creator 5 and Unreal Engine

A conversational avatar starts with a reliable character asset, not with a running service. Before connecting speech and facial animation, we need a complete character, correctly reconstructed materials, and facial morph targets that the renderer can actually drive. [1] [2] This first article explains how to prepare a Character Creator 5 (CC5) avatar for an …

A Data Center Digital Twin Using Surrogate Models and NVIDIA Omniverse Kit-CAE

CFD / AI SURROGATE / OMNIVERSE KIT-CAE From CFD to an interactive data-center twin The surrogate takes a GPU load setting and the ON/OFF states of four air-conditioning units, then predicts temperature and three velocity components over 3,494,065 fluid cells. Kit-CAE visualizes the predicted fields through an in-memory pipeline. This article reports the 100-case surrogate …

Hello Tech Blog

Welcome to the DTC Tech Blog! Hello, and welcome to the Digital Twin Center (DTC) Tech Blog! We are excited to launch this blog as a place to share the technologies, experiments, and ideas being explored at the Digital Twin Center. Technology is evolving at an incredible pace. Fields such as Artificial Intelligence, GPU computing, …

Special roundtable discussion

A roundtable discussion was held to discuss the activities and future vision of the Digital Twin Center, bringing together the university’s president, faculty members involved in the center’s operations, and experts from cooperating companies. We will report on the discussion in five parts. https://www.teu.ac.jp/gakubu/cs/dtc_zadankai/index.html