Hume AI

What Hume AI is

Hume AI is a research lab and company focused on emotionally intelligent AI. Its products include an Empathic Voice Interface that generates responses based on the user's tone and emotion, a text-to-speech system whose style and emotional delivery can be adjusted with natural language instructions, and an Expression Measurement API covering speech, face and language.

The company states an ethics and transparency programme.

What you can do with it

• Build a voice interface that responds to tone
• Direct emotional delivery in generated speech
• Measure emotional expression in audio or video
• Study multimodal interaction

Who it is for

• AI teams building conversational products
• Researchers in emotion computing
• Product teams in health, education and support

What to watch out for

• Emotion inference from voice and face is probabilistic and culturally dependent; it should not decide anything consequential about a person
• Using emotion data in hiring, evaluation, diagnosis or policing raises serious legal and ethical problems
• Emotional and behavioural signals are sensitive personal data; consent, notice and retention matter
• Claims about emotional understanding are vendor framing; validate on your own users