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New LaunchAug 4, 2026, 09:54 AM

Kaltura Launches Emotionally Intelligent Agentic Avatars

AI Summary

Kaltura (Nasdaq: KLTR) has launched real-time emotional intelligence for its Agentic Avatars, enabling them to interpret user tone and intent and respond with synchronized facial expressions and vocal nuance. This new capability aims to create more engaging, empathetic, and effective interactions across various applications like customer service, sales, marketing, and learning. The technology is powered by Kaltura's proprietary anchor-based diffusion rendering architecture, which uses emotion anchors and latent-space interpolation for natural emotional expressions. This launch builds on Kaltura's strategy to power agentic digital experiences, supported by recent acquisitions of eSelf.ai and PathFactory.

Key Highlights

  • Kaltura introduced real-time emotional intelligence for its Agentic Avatars.
  • Avatars interpret user tone and intent, responding with synchronized facial expressions and vocal nuance.
  • Aims to enhance engagement in customer service, sales, marketing, learning, and internal communications.
  • Powered by Kaltura's proprietary anchor-based diffusion rendering architecture.
  • Architecture uses emotion anchors and latent-space interpolation for smooth, natural transitions.
  • Provides fine-grained intensity control for emotional expressions, from subtle to pronounced.
  • Builds on recent acquisitions of eSelf.ai (photorealistic avatars) and PathFactory (content intelligence).
  • Kaltura was recognized by ISG Research as an Exemplary Provider for Conversational AI.