Charisma

Charisma is a plug-and-play platform for creating interactive stories with lifelike virtual characters. The platform uses artificial intelligence to fuel multi-character conversations, letting you meet characters, talk to them and steer the story in different directions.

With a no-code story engine, Charisma lets developers and creatives breathe life into characters in web, apps, games, VR and other formats. That's done with features like speech-to-text access, custom voice integration and generative AI dialogue.

Charisma is useful in a number of areas:

• Learning: Build engaging and realistic learning and training scenarios with controllable AI, and make learning more engaging and personalized.
• Entertainment: Speed up the creation of immersive, conversation-based stories for movies, TV shows and video games.
• Marketing: Make customer interactions more relevant and personalized with interactive campaigns.

The company offers two main pricing tiers:

• PRO: Good for developers and creatives with smaller projects. It's a pay-as-you-go system costing $5 per 50,000 credits, and it includes features like story creation, web comic publishing and script flow tools.
• ENTERPRISE: Better for bigger businesses with higher usage levels. It adds features like narrative design support, technical support and fixed monthly pricing that must be negotiated.

Charisma is designed to be flexible, easily integrated with other engines and platforms like Unity and Unreal Engine, so it's available to a wide range of people. Its showcase shows off some examples of projects that have used it, including personalized wellbeing apps, immersive theater productions and 3D video games.

If you want to get started, Charisma has detailed documentation and SDKs for JavaScript, Unity and Unreal Engine to make integration as smooth as possible. The company's hope is that the technology will help people create new ways of storytelling by giving creative people new AI-powered tools that put writers at the center of interactive experiences.

Published on June 14, 2024