Charisma

Charisma is a company that specializes in powering virtual characters with voices, emotions, memories, and goals. Their no-code story engine facilitates multi-character conversations for various applications, including entertainment, marketing, and learning and training experiences. Charisma’s platform is designed to create effective and believable learning scenarios with controllable AI, accelerating the production of conversation-driven immersive experiences in entertainment and increasing customer relevance through hyper-personalized interactive marketing campaigns. The company also offers a browser-based player for creating and sharing web comics and allows users to add custom ElevenLabs voices to their stories.

Charisma has collaborated with Oxford University to develop AI-powered educational tools for Humanities teaching and has launched a Plug ‘n’ Play module for creating interactive 3D stories in Unity and Unreal Engine. They developed an interactive experience for the DVD release of ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’ for Dreamworks and NBCUniversal and have an integration partnership with digital human leaders UneeQ. Their AI platform is also used in immersive theatre productions, such as a show by Swamp Motel.

Charisma received an Epic MegaGrant to build a showcase using Epic Games’ MetaHumans technology and has been exploring technology to support AI characters in metaverses and games. They have implemented a next-gen emotions engine for virtual characters and are involved in the Collaborative AI Consortium to influence the future of artificial intelligence in the Creative Industries. Charisma runs Writers Labs, keynote conferences, and partners with universities to ensure the responsible and sustainable development of creative AI. They won the DigitalCatapult Responsible and Ethical Tech Pioneer Award.

Charisma’s SDKs allow users to play stories in external clients like web browsers, game engines, or robots. They offer a free trial period with 50,000 credits for new Pro Licence users, which includes features like premium character voices, custom voice integration, and generative AI dialogue features. The Enterprise plan includes additional support such as an account manager, narrative design support, and technical support. Charisma’s headquarters are located at 3 Kings Meadow, Oxford, OX2 0DP, United Kingdom.