CENTERBEAM AI · NOVA SDK / API
Build AI That Listens, Reasons and Acts in Real Time
Nova is Centerbeam AI's model-neutral realtime SDK and API for building voice and multimodal applications across web, mobile, edge, and enterprise systems.
One realtime layer. Any model. Any interface.
Nova Voice Agent
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A production-ready voice agent powered by Centerbeam pipelines. Experience real-time interaction.
The Nova Voice Pipeline is a full-duplex device-neutral API relay gateway for embodied interaction.
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Multi-Provider
Three leading providers. One platform.
Nova's provider-independent architecture normalizes OpenAI, Google, and xAI behind a single orchestration layer — one set of events, one session config, one SDK. Choose the right provider for each application, or route between them, without building around a single AI ecosystem.
Capabilities differ by provider — each provider page lists what is supported today. And we're not stopping at three: the adapter layer is built to add providers as the technology evolves.
The Realtime Interaction Layer
Nova connects people, AI models, and applications
Centerbeam AI develops Nova, a model-neutral realtime voice and multimodal AI SDK, API, and agent runtime. Nova sits between your application, your users, and the intelligence behind it so you can build natural interaction without rebuilding your product around a single model provider.
Use voice alone when hands-free interaction matters. Combine voice with screens, video, touch, tools, application state, and conventional controls when they make the experience better.
One realtime interaction layer
Nova connects people, AI models, and applications through one event-driven interaction layer. Build conversational experiences that can listen, reason, retrieve knowledge, use tools, control application state, and respond in real time.
Bidirectional, event-driven, real time
Nova listens, responds, and adapts to both the user and your application's state. It supports natural interruption, barge-in, application events, deterministic tool execution, and confirm-before-act workflows when actions require explicit approval.
Model-neutral by design
OpenAI Realtime, Google Gemini Live, and Grok Voice can sit behind the same Nova integration surface. Choose, route, or change models without rebuilding your product around a single provider. Nova now ships with OpenAI Realtime, Google Gemini Live, and xAI Grok Voice Agent behind a single integration surface. Swap providers or route between them without rewriting your product.
How It Works
One integration from model to application
Nova gives your team a direct path from a realtime prototype to production software while keeping model connectivity, tools, state, reasoning, interaction, and deployment behind one application-facing layer.
Embed the SDK
Add Nova to your website or application with JavaScript, TypeScript, or SwiftUI and place realtime interaction directly inside the product experience.
Connect models and capabilities
Wire prompts, realtime models, tools, workflows, business logic, application state, reasoning, and knowledge into one interactive agent runtime.
Deploy where your product lives
Run Nova across browser, mobile, cloud, edge, private, hybrid, or on-prem environments with observability and deployment paths designed to grow from prototype to production.
Developer Integration
Build the next interface into your product
Nova is built for product and engineering teams that need realtime AI inside an actual application, not beside it. Add voice and multimodal interaction without owning every part of the streaming, provider, event, tool, state, and orchestration stack yourself.
import { Nova } from "@centerbeam/nova";
const nova = new Nova({ apiKey: process.env.NOVA_API_KEY });
await nova.mount("#agent");
await nova.start();Applications
From software interfaces to the physical world
Nova gives teams one realtime interaction layer across software, games, branded experiences, customer workflows, mobile applications, laboratories, field operations, and mission-critical environments.
Software & web applications
Add natural realtime interaction directly to existing applications. Users can speak, see application state change, use conventional controls when useful, and move fluidly between voice, visual, touch, and keyboard interaction.
Games & interactive media
Create characters, game systems, and interactive experiences that listen, reason, respond, remember application state, trigger tools, and participate naturally in live gameplay and media.
Marketing & branded voice agents
Build named, persona-driven realtime agents for websites, products, campaigns, real estate, retail, schools, and consumer brands. Guest Mode lets visitors speak directly without an app download or account.
Field service & utilities
Technicians on ladders, in electrical cabinets, and under vehicles get voice-guided access to work orders, manuals, inspection logs, tools, and workflows while their hands and attention stay on the job.
Mobile biometric & health capture
When a user cannot continuously watch a screen during capture, Nova can provide realtime framing guidance, listen for responses, coordinate application state, and help complete the workflow naturally.
Warehouse & DVIR
Support pick-by-voice, vehicle inspection, inventory workflows, multilingual operations, and mobile field processes without locking the application into proprietary headsets or a single AI provider.
Laboratory bench work
Scientists working in fume hoods, clean benches, and instrument environments can interact with protocols, timers, observations, tools, and ELN/LIMS systems without interrupting the physical workflow.
Semiconductor & wafer inspection
Cleanroom operators can run inspection workflows, review defect information, log observations, and perform controlled actions through realtime interaction with confirmations, permissions, and auditability.
Customer service & intake
Build always-on realtime agents that answer questions, qualify leads, collect intake information, route users, invoke tools, retrieve knowledge, and transition between automated and human-assisted workflows.
Nova also powers enterprise copilots, onboarding flows, multilingual intake, application control, and custom realtime experiences. See all use cases →
Enterprise Readiness
Realtime AI with control around the action
Nova is built for teams that need more than a conversational prototype. Centerbeam supports authentication, permissions, auditability, confirm-before-act workflows, observability, private networking, and deployment flexibility for production environments.
Centerbeam AI · Nova
One realtime layer. Any model. Any interface.
Start with a realtime proof of concept and deploy the same interaction architecture across web, mobile, cloud, edge, enterprise, and customer-facing applications.