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Hume AI (Hume)

Empathic voice and emotion AI platform

hume.ai
Headquarters
New York, United States
Founded year
2021
Company type
Private company
Number of employees
10–60

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Latest news about Hume AI (Hume)

In short: Hume underwent major leadership changes and product launches, including Google DeepMind's hiring of its CEO and the release of TADA and Octave 2.

Company announcements

  • Hume

    Hume announces DaiKon ACII 2026 workshop and challenge

    It benchmarks machine learning for interpersonal affect in dyadic conversations, with tasks on influence, turn-taking, and rapport using a 743-hour multilingual dataset.

  • Hume

    Hume open-sources TADA speech generation system

    TADA synchronizes text and acoustics for fast, reliable TTS with zero hallucinations and on-device capability. Code and models are available now.

  • Hume

    Hume provides datasets and tools for voice AI models

    Hume offers expression datasets, voice design, industry-specific data, reliability training, annotation pipelines, and evaluation infrastructure. Focuses on emotion and voice for frontier labs.

  • Hume

    Hume offers free TTS in Adobe Express

    The plugin enables instant voice creation and samples within Adobe Express for videos, presentations, or graphics.

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Media coverage

  • TestingCatalog

    Hume AI releases its first open-source TTS model, TADA

    Hume AI has officially released TADA, a new text-to-speech (TTS) system based on a unique Text-Acoustic Dual Alignment tokenization approach. This solution is now available...

  • DMR News

    Google DeepMind Brings In Hume AI Leadership To Strengthen Gemini Voice Features

    Google DeepMind has hired the chief executive and several senior engineers from voice AI startup Hume AI under a new licensing agreement, adding experienced...

  • Yahoo Finance

    Hume AI Appoints New CEO

    NEW YORK, Jan. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Hume AI, the leading voice AI research company focused on aligning artificial intelligence with human well-being, today announced...

  • Wired

    Google Acquires Top Talent From AI Voice Startup Hume AI in Licensing Deal

    Hume AI’s CEO, Alan Cowen, will join Google DeepMind along with several top engineers as part of a major licensing deal.

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