Nova SDK — Hands-Free Voice for the Field, Lab, and Floor
Voice for work where hands can't stop and eyes can't look away.
Nova is the real-time voice SDK built for hands-occupied environments. When a technician is on a ladder, an operator is in a cleanroom, or a driver is on the road, Nova guides them through complex workflows by voice — without a screen, without stopping the work.
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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Why Nova
Voice AI for the moments when touching a screen isn't an option
Nova gives developers a clean SDK for embedding voice into websites and applications, while Centerbeam handles the underlying real-time agent pipeline. That means faster implementation, better runtime behavior, and a cleaner path from prototype to production.
Built for real hands-free work
Field technicians, lab scientists, warehouse pickers, cleanroom operators, and fleet drivers all share one thing: their hands are occupied. Nova is the SDK built for that constraint — not adapted from it.
Bidirectional, event-driven, real time
Nova doesn't just play audio. It listens, responds, and adapts based on what the user says and what your app's state events tell it. The system speaks when it's needed, shuts up when interrupted, and confirms before anything irreversible happens.
Multi-provider from one SDK
Nova now ships with OpenAI Realtime and Google Gemini Live behind a single integration surface. Swap providers or route between them without rewriting your product.
How It Works
From demo to production in three steps
The browser demo shows what the experience feels like. Nova gives your team a direct path to building the same kind of voice interaction into your own product.
Embed the SDK
Add Nova to your website with a few lines of JavaScript or TypeScript and mount the voice experience where it belongs in your product.
Connect your agent
Wire prompts, tools, workflows, business logic, and knowledge into the experience so the agent can do real work inside your application.
Deploy with confidence
Use Centerbeam infrastructure to support real-time sessions, observability, and deployment paths that can grow from prototype to production.
Developer Integration
Simple integration. Serious capability.
Nova is built for product and engineering teams who want a clean integration surface, not a science project. Add real-time voice to your app without owning the full streaming stack yourself.
import { Nova } from "@centerbeam/nova";
const nova = new Nova({ apiKey: process.env.NOVA_API_KEY });
await nova.mount("#agent");
await nova.start();Use Cases
Built for the five verticals where voice is mission-critical
Nova fits best where speed, clarity, and task completion matter. These are the kinds of voice experiences teams can ship without building the full voice stack from scratch.
Field service & utilities
Technicians on ladders, in electrical cabinets, and under vehicles get voice-guided access to work orders, manuals, and inspection logs — tools in hand, gloves on.
Mobile biometric & health capture
When a patient can't read the screen mid-scan, Nova speaks the framing corrections and listens for their responses. Real-time guidance, 100 languages, no re-takes.
Warehouse & DVIR
Pick-by-voice, hands-free vehicle inspection, and multilingual fleet operations — SDK-first, so you're not locked into proprietary headsets or single-vendor stacks.
Laboratory bench work
Gloved scientists in fume hoods and laminar-flow benches interact with protocols, timers, and ELN/LIMS systems by voice — without removing gloves or breaking sterile procedure.
Semiconductor & wafer inspection
Cleanroom operators run inspection recipes, triage defect maps, and log results by voice — in any language, on any edge-deployable device, with no cloud egress required.
Nova also powers customer support, onboarding, intake, and internal copilots. See all use cases →
Enterprise Readiness
Ready for serious deployment
Nova is built for teams that need more than a prototype. Centerbeam supports the security, control, observability, and deployment flexibility required for real production environments.
Build hands-free voice into your next product
Start with a proof of concept. Deploy to field, lab, or floor on Centerbeam infrastructure.