Hume AI
Hume AI offers advanced voice AI models that leverage emotional intelligence to create highly realistic and expressive speech.
Our verdict
Who it's for
The world's most realistic and expressive voice AI powered by emotional intelligence.
Who should look elsewhere
No explicit free tier mentioned, suggesting it's a paid service.
Pros
- +Generates highly realistic and emotionally expressive voices.
- +Offers extensive control over voice characteristics and performance.
- +Supports a wide range of languages with consistent voice identity.
- +Provides tools for both text-to-speech and speech-to-speech applications.
- +Built on scientific research in affective science for accurate emotion detection and generation.
Cons
- −No explicit free tier mentioned, suggesting it's a paid service.
- −EVI 4 mini currently requires pairing with an external LLM for native language generation.
Key features
- ✓Text-to-speech with emotional intelligence (Octave)
- ✓Empathic Voice Interface for conversations (EVI)
- ✓Expression Measurement from face and voice
- ✓Voice Creation by describing desired voice characteristics
- ✓Voice Cloning from short audio samples
- ✓Cross-Lingual voice generation across 100+ languages
- ✓Acting Instructions to guide voice delivery (e.g., whisper, shout, tone)
- ✓Voice Conversion to exchange voices while preserving phonetic qualities
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | month | 10,000 monthly included characters; 15 RPM (requests per minute); 5 minutes monthly EVI usage included |
| Starter | $3 | month | 30,000 monthly included characters; 15 RPM (requests per minute); 20 projects |
| Creator | $7 | month | 140,000 monthly included characters; Additional characters cost: $0.15/1,000; 75 RPM (requests per minute) |
| Pro | $70 | month | 1,000,000 monthly included characters; Additional characters cost: $0.12/1,000; 75 RPM (requests per minute) |
| Scale | $200 | month | 3,300,000 monthly included characters; Additional characters cost: $0.10/1,000; 150 RPM (requests per minute) |
| Business | $500 | month | 10,000,000 monthly included characters; Additional characters cost: $0.05/1,000; 225 RPM (requests per minute) |
| Enterprise | — | month | As much as you need monthly included characters; Custom additional characters cost; Custom RPM (requests per minute) |