nemotron-halloween
MonsterHouse is an interactive projection the reporter created for Halloween, featuring a grumpy old pirate ship that listens to trick-or-treaters and answers their questions in a grumpy pirate voice. The monster is built using NVIDIA Nemotron Voice Agent, Nemotron ASR, Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB, Magpie TTS Zeroshot, and Audio2Face-3D.
The animation for the wooden mouth was created using NVIDIA Audio2Face-3D in Unreal Engine 5. The reporter wanted to give the house a backstory, so he imagined it as a sunken pirate ship reincarnated as real estate, which added a reason for the grumpy personality. He trained the house to respond to visitors' questions and remember good manners, refusing to negotiate with those who didn't show respect.
The house gives out treats at the end, with the performance guided by a master conversation flow. The reporter built everything on a single workstation, using NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q and NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell GPUs.
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