Hume AI Octave Text-to-Speech

Hume is a leading affective computing and conversational AI company founded with the goal of aligning technology with human well-being. The brand originated in the United States, established by Alan Cowen, a former Google researcher known for his extensive work on the computational analysis of facial and vocal expressions.

Technically developed and hosted in the United States, Hume’s product suite includes the Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) and the Octave Text-to-Speech (TTS) platform. They specialize in voice synthesis and emotion AI, allowing machines to understand and generate speech with human-like prosody and emotional intelligence. The company remains an independent venture-backed startup, maintaining its headquarters in New York while providing global API access to its suite of generative AI tools.