NVIDIA Riva

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API protocol

Riva services are exposed through gRPC endpoints, with Python client interfaces supplied for application integration.developer.nvidia.com · read 21 Oct 2026

Automatic speech recognition

Riva provides customizable real-time and offline automatic speech recognition across languages including Arabic, Mandarin, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.nvidia.com · read 21 Oct 2026

Beta features

Zero Shot TTS and emotion mixing are listed as beta features.docs.nvidia.com · read 10 Oct 2026

Company founding

NVIDIA was founded on April 5, 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem.nvidia.com · read 21 Oct 2026

Company headquarters and size

LinkedIn lists NVIDIA headquarters in Santa Clara, California and company size above 10,001 employees.linkedin.com · read 21 Oct 2026

Company legal name

The product is made by NVIDIA Corporation.nvidia.com · read 21 Oct 2026

Container and Kubernetes support

Riva is distributed as containers and includes Quick Start scripts and a Speech AI Skills Helm chart for Kubernetes deployments.catalog.ngc.nvidia.com · read 21 Oct 2026

Customization

Pretrained models can be fine-tuned with custom datasets and optimized for domain-specific speech and translation workloads.developer.nvidia.com · read 21 Oct 2026

Data handling

NVIDIA says Riva data can be processed on premises or in the customer’s cloud.docs.nvidia.com · read 10 Oct 2026

Deployment

Riva supports deployment in the cloud, on premises, and at the edge, with scaling to hundreds of thousands of concurrent users.docs.nvidia.com · read 10 Oct 2026

Deployment options

Riva can run on premises, in public clouds, at the edge and on embedded devices.developer.nvidia.com · read 21 Oct 2026

Deployment tooling

Riva supports Helm-managed cloud deployment.docs.nvidia.com · read 10 Oct 2026

Documentation depth

The documentation hub includes installation, Python and command-line clients, sample apps, model references, gRPC and Protocol Buffers, troubleshooting and upgrade guidance.docs.nvidia.com · read 21 Oct 2026

Embedded software stack

The current embedded matrix lists Ubuntu 24.04, CUDA 13.0.48, cuDNN 9.12.0, TensorRT 10.13.2.6, Triton 2.60.0 and Docker 28 or newer.docs.nvidia.com · read 21 Oct 2026

GetApp integration listing

GetApp lists Docker as Riva's single top integration and shows no submitted user reviews.getapp.com · read 21 Oct 2026

GPU platform requirement

The Riva license terms describe internal test and development use on systems that include NVIDIA GPUs, excluding production use under that grant.docs.nvidia.com · read 10 Oct 2026

GPU requirement

Riva development supports NVIDIA Turing or newer GPUs, with 16 GB or more of GPU memory recommended for data-center models.docs.nvidia.com · read 21 Oct 2026

HTTP and WebSocket APIs

Riva 2.26 adds WebSocket real-time and HTTP REST APIs for ASR and TTS on Jetson platforms.docs.nvidia.com · read 21 Oct 2026

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