Voice agents with Realtime Video — Sidney Primas, LemonSlice
LemonSlice launched a Microsoft-partnered real-time Teddy Roosevelt avatar demonstrated to President Trump
“What we mean by this is making an Avatar that is indistinguishable from a human on a video call.”
LemonSlice, a startup pursuing what it calls the 'Avatar Turing test,' launched a partnership with Microsoft to deploy a photorealistic, real-time interactive Teddy Roosevelt avatar inside a replica Oval Office at his presidential library, with President Trump attending the opening and interacting with it. The company is tackling a long tail of hard problems beyond visual realism, including emotions, micro-expressions, object interactions, and internal state modeling. This marks a high-profile milestone for real-time AI avatar technology entering public-facing institutional deployments.