Nuance Labs is an artificial intelligence company developing face-to-face conversational AI designed to interact in a more human, emotionally aware way. Its work centers on a “human foundation model” intended to interpret speech alongside visual and behavioral cues, including tone, facial expression, and hesitation, then respond in real time. The company describes its technology as a full-duplex audiovisual system: it aims to see, hear, reason, speak, and express itself simultaneously rather than communicating in rigid conversational turns.

Nuance Labs is focused on making AI interactions more natural and engaging, with expressive speech and video, low-latency responses, an interesting personality, and active-listening behaviors such as interjections and nodding. The company’s stated mission is to help people communicate face to face with products through conversational interfaces. Its model adapts autoregressive transformer techniques to predict audio and visual signals as well as language. Nuance Labs is based in Seattle, and its founding team includes researchers with doctoral backgrounds from MIT and the University of Washington, as well as experience at Apple.