Research Portal·Innosuisse Project — starting autumn 2026

DigiDouble

A conversational avatar of any person, from their existing video archives. Personalized, sovereign, real-time.

This portal documents the state of the art, research gaps, and technology choices for the DigiDouble project. It serves as a reference for industrial partners, Innosuisse evaluators, and IDIAP researchers. It also provides independent information on voice synthesis and video avatar challenges.

Speech Synthesis & Recognition

Challenges independent of the DigiDouble project

Explore Voice section
< 500ms

TTFB target for TTS first audio

14+

TTS engines evaluated (cloud + open-source)

$0.003–$0.20

cost per minute depending on TTS engine

3

STT architectures compared (Nova-3, Whisper, Inworld)

The Voice Pipeline section provides an independent analysis of the TTS/STT ecosystem: technical comparisons, latency benchmarks, cost models, and stack recommendations. This information is useful for any conversational AI project, beyond DigiDouble.

Streaming Video Avatars

Challenges independent of the DigiDouble project

Explore Avatars section
11+

video avatar platforms compared

< 300ms

latency achieved by Simli Trinity-1

$0.009–$0.35

cost per minute depending on platform

1 only

actor covers multi-style criterion (LemonSlice)

The Video Avatars section provides an independent analysis of the streaming video avatar ecosystem: platform comparisons, interactive cost simulator, business and market challenges. This information is useful for any project integrating a conversational avatar.

Explore the portal

Three independent sections. Each can be consulted alone or in connection with the others.

The Project

DigiDouble — Project & Research

Product vision, target architecture, Innosuisse research axes, identified gaps, and academic assessment.

Voice Pipeline

Speech Synthesis & Recognition

Complete comparison of TTS and STT engines, latency benchmarks, recommended stack, and Phase 1 pipeline.

Video Avatars

Streaming Video Avatars

Comparison of commercial platforms, cost simulator, business challenges, behavior, and emotional design.

Memoways SA · Innosuisse project with IDIAP · Starting autumn 2026