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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 a leadership transition and high-profile talent licensing deal with Google DeepMind while advancing its emotional voice models.

Company announcements

April 9 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.

March 10 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.

January 21 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.

23 October 2025 Hume

Hume offers free TTS in Adobe Express

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

Media coverage

May 20 Winbuzzer

Google DeepMind's $100 Million Contextual AI Deal Follows Hume Licensing Playbook

Large AI labs can use that format to move faster, avoid absorbing a startup’s whole corporate structure, and focus first on the people and software...

March 11 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...

January 25 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...

January 22 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...

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