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Octave 2 by Hume AI

Octave 2 by Hume AI

The next-generation multilingual text-to-speech model

Website hume.ai
Overview

What it is

Hume is a research lab and technology company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial intelligence is built to serve human goals and emotional well-being.

Intent

I need it when

Scale voice AI production from prototype to enterprise with flexible pricing and compliance

Hume AI offers tiered pricing from free ($0) to enterprise custom plans, with SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and HIPAA compliance available at higher tiers. Usage-based overage pricing ($0.05–$0.15 per 1,000 characters) allows cost-effective scaling, and team collaboration features support organizational growth.

Create realistic voice experiences for digital avatars, characters, or interactive applications

Octave 2 provides unlimited voice cloning and creation across all paid tiers, allowing developers to design custom voices using descriptive prompts or clone from audio samples. This enables realistic, personalized voice experiences for games, virtual characters, and interactive applications.

Build emotionally intelligent voice AI applications that understand and respond to human emotion

Octave 2 is a closed-source LLM text-to-speech system with voice design, voice modulation, voice cloning, and voice conversion capabilities. It enables developers to create expressive speech synthesis that understands context and emotion, allowing applications to respond with appropriate tone and prosody rather than robotic speech.

Analyze and measure emotional expression in voice, video, and text data

Hume AI's Expression Measurement API complements Octave 2 by analyzing 48+ emotions and 600+ voice descriptors across 50+ languages. Users can measure facial expression, speech prosody, vocal bursts, and emotional language with pay-as-you-go pricing, enabling sentiment analysis and emotional intelligence insights.

Develop real-time conversational AI with natural turn-taking and interruptibility

Octave 2 integrates with Hume's Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) for speech-to-speech interaction. EVI provides real-time voice conversation with interruptibility, back-channeling, and expressive instruction following, enabling natural dialogue that responds to user emotion and vocal cues.

Drop

Not a fit when

  • User needs real-time voice AI without emotional intelligence or expression analysis capabilities
  • Organization requires on-premise deployment or cannot use cloud-based APIs
  • Project demands extremely low-latency responses below Hume's current infrastructure capabilities
  • User needs only basic text-to-speech without voice design, cloning, or conversion features
  • Organization operates in jurisdictions with strict data residency requirements incompatible with Hume's infrastructure
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Pricing

USD0 - USD500 / monthly View pricing