nutritionist 'Ria' (Eds: Repeating after correcting last para) Bengaluru, Oct 13 (PTI) Health and fitness startup, HealthifyMe today unveiled the conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled nutritionist 'Ria'.
The advanced AI coach will be launched in the coming months in Beta format.
The company believes that it will transform the waypeople manage their nutrition and fitness plans.
Ria was launched at HealthifyMe's annual event 'Ignite', where the company announced that it has secured a 4.6 star rating on Google Play Store, a feat only a few Indian apps have achieved so far with one million downloads.
Ria has been devised in a way that it can answer questions around nutrition and fitness via both audio andtext in more than 10 languages.
It also provides personalized responses based on theusers' lifestyle habits.
HealthifyMe app is available to download for free and enables users to keep a track of their calories, set personal fitness goals and measure progress.
The company claimed at a press meet that the AI hasworld's largest database of Indian foods and syncs with allleading wearables including Fitbit, Yufit, MiBand, amongothers, besides its own fitness band 'Rist'.
Co-founder and CEO of HealthifyMe, Tushar Vashisht toldreporters the AI enabled nutritionist was developed under thecodename 'Project Amadeus'.
Ria uses key learning skills obtained from HealthifyMe's150 million tracked meals and 10 million message exchangesbetween coaches and clients.
Project Amadeus is the next step to another AInicknamed Jarvis to assist coaches become more efficient bylearning from their interactions with clients, said Vashist.
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