An AI research lab and company providing a toolkit and APIs that empower developers to build applications with emotional intelligence by interpreting vocal, facial, and linguistic expressions.
Hume is a developer-centric platform offering a suite of APIs designed to imbue applications with emotional intelligence. Its core technology analyzes complex signals from human voice, facial expressions, and language to predict a nuanced spectrum of over 48 emotional states, moving far beyond simple positive or negative sentiment analysis. Hume primarily serves developers, researchers, and companies aiming to build more natural, responsive, and empathic products, such as next-generation voice assistants, customer support tools, or wellbeing applications. The company's unique value proposition is its research-grounded, multi-modal approach, highlighted by its flagship Empathic Voice Interface (EVI), which understands the tone of voice to generate more human-like, emotionally aware responses. This focus on deep emotional expression analysis paves the way for truly human-centric AI interactions.
Developers, AI researchers, and product teams building voice assistants, customer service platforms, mental wellness apps, user research tools, and other human-computer interaction systems.
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2021
New York, USA
Lab Access
For individual developers and researchers. Includes an API key for development, access to demos, and visualizations. Subject to rate limits.
Free
Build
For startups and products in development. Usage-based pricing with no platform fees. EVI costs $0.09/min and the batch Expression Measurement API starts at $0.0075/second of audio.
Pay-as-you-go
Enterprise
For large-scale deployments. Includes all features, plus options for private deployments, custom model training, dedicated infrastructure, and enterprise-grade support.
Custom
A good choice for general-purpose text sentiment analysis, but it lacks Hume's specialized focus on deep, multi-dimensional emotional expression and multi-modal (voice) analysis.
Offers robust sentiment analysis and text analytics, but is not purpose-built for the nuanced vocal prosody and empathic response capabilities that define Hume's EVI.
Provides a broad suite of AI tools including speech and sentiment analysis, but Hume differentiates with its research-backed model of 48+ emotional dimensions and its integrated empathic voice system.
While a leader in speech-to-text with sentiment features, Deepgram's primary focus is transcription accuracy, whereas Hume's is the deep analysis and generation of emotional tone.
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