Living Portrait, life-size AI characters you can talk to
Conversational digital humans designed to listen, answer in their own voice and stay in character, for museums, receptions and brand spaces.
- Our role
- Our own product, designed and developed in-house
- Year
- 2024–present
What it is
Living Portrait characters are life-size digital humans designed to hold a spoken conversation. A visitor asks a question out loud, and the character listens, answers in its own voice with matching lip movement, and stays in character while it does.
Where it fits
- Museums and heritage. Historical figures who answer visitors’ questions about their own lives, grounded in the venue’s own research.
- Reception and hospitality. A front-of-house character that greets visitors, answers common questions and checks people in.
- Brand spaces. A brand ambassador or product expert who knows the range inside out.
What it’s built to do
- Custom characters. A fictional character, a receptionist, a historical figure, a teacher or a member of staff.
- Works offline. Designed to run on local systems, so it keeps working without an internet connection.
- Quick replies. Answers in around two to three seconds.
- Voice and face cloning. A copy of a real person’s voice, plus a scan and animation that capture their likeness and mannerisms.
- Idle behaviour. The character stays engaging even when nobody is talking to it.
- Live data. Connections for email bookings, check-in, location data, APIs and motion detection.