Hume AI
by Hume AI Inc.
FreemiumEmpathic AI platform with voice interfaces that understand and respond to human emotions in real-time conversations.
Overview
Hume AI builds empathic artificial intelligence that understands and responds to human emotions through voice, facial expressions, and language. The flagship Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) creates conversational AI that detects emotional nuance in real-time, adjusting tone, pacing, and responses based on how the user feels.
The platform provides APIs for emotion recognition across modalities — voice prosody, facial expression analysis, and language sentiment — plus a voice synthesis engine that produces natural-sounding speech with emotional depth. EVI 3, the latest version, delivers near-human conversational quality with sub-second response times.
Hume AI is designed for developers building emotionally intelligent applications — therapy bots, customer service agents, interview prep tools, and accessibility solutions. The technology is guided by The Hume Initiative, an ethical framework ensuring AI serves human well-being.
Pricing
- Limited API calls for testing and prototyping
- Access to EVI playground
- Pay-per-use pricing for voice interactions, emotion APIs, and speech synthesis
- Dedicated infrastructure, custom model training, SLA, and priority support. *Free tier is generous enough for prototyping
- Volume discounts available.*