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description: >-
Quickstart guides for getting started with NeMo Curator across text, image,
and video modalities with minimal setup
categories:

* getting-started
  tags:
* quickstart
* installation
* python-api
* tutorial
  personas:
* data-scientist-focused
* mle-focused
  difficulty: beginner
  content\_type: tutorial
  modality: universal

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# About Getting Started

## Before You Start

Welcome to NeMo Curator! This framework streamlines the curation and pre-processing of large-scale datasets for training generative AI models across text, image, audio and video modalities.

**Who are these quickstarts for?**

* AI/ML engineers and researchers who want to quickly test NeMo Curator's capabilities
* Users looking to run an initial curation pipeline with minimal setup
* Individuals exploring NeMo Curator prior to a full production deployment

**What you'll find here:**
Each quickstart enables you to get started with a specific domain in less than 30 minutes. Quickstarts provide basic installation steps, sample data, and a working example.

<Tip>
  For production deployments, cluster configurations, or detailed system requirements, refer to the [Setup & Deployment documentation](/admin).
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## Modality Quickstarts

The following quickstarts allow you to test NeMo Curator using a selected data modality.

<Cards>
  <Card title="Text Curation Quickstart" href="/get-started/text">
    Set up your environment and execute your first text curation pipeline with NeMo Curator. Instructions cover installation, data preparation, and use of the modular pipeline architecture for efficient large-scale text dataset curation.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Image Curation Quickstart" href="/get-started/image">
    Set up your environment and install the NeMo Curator image modules. The quickstart explains prerequisites, installation methods, and the use of the framework to curate large-scale image-text datasets for generative AI model training.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Video Curation Quickstart" href="/get-started/video">
    Set up your environment and execute your first video curation pipeline. The instructions include prerequisites, installation options, and guidance on splitting, encoding, embedding, and exporting curated video clips at scale.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Audio Curation Quickstart" href="/get-started/audio">
    Set up your environment and execute your first audio curation pipeline with NeMo Curator. Instructions cover installation, data preparation, and use of the modular pipeline architecture for efficient large-scale audio speech dataset curation.
  </Card>
</Cards>