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Hume AI
Company blog · hume.ai/blog · on HN as humeAIaiprogramming
Hume AI is the company blog at hume.ai, writing about ai and programming. Since 2024, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Hume: Empathic AI”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Hume AI for its voice-to-voice demos and speech-to-speech model (EVI). One commenter discussed its emotion detection in light of the EU AI Act.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hume helps frontier labs and enterprises build more emotionally intelligent voice AI through voice-native evaluation, human judgment, and evidence that guides improvement.
Most-linked posts?
- Hume: Empathic AI3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-03-18
What Hacker News says?
Try this one https://www.hume.ai/ - I found the demos (voice to voice) interesting.
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on “Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M”Submitted Octave TTS: the first text-to-speech system that understands what it's saying as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHume AI | Full-time | Onsite (NYC, Sunnyvale / Bay Area) or remote | AI Research Engineer, Backend Services Engineer, Data Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer Apply here: https://jobs.polymer.co/hume-ai Hume is a research lab and startup that provides the most advanced AI toolkit to measure, understand, and improve how technology affects human emotion. Where other AI companies see only words, we see the other half o…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)”Submitted Hume: Empathic AI as a story · 4 points
HN discussionUntil reading this article I hadn't realized that emotion detection is banned (edit: but confirmed only in workplaces and educational institutions) I've had it on my list to try integrating Hume.ai ( https://www.hume.ai/ ) into a prototype educational environment I've been playing with. The entirety of their product is emotion detection, so this must be concerning for them. My own desire is to experiment with someth…
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on “European Union AI Act”Submitted Hume AI Octave 2: new text-to-speech model, 11+ languages as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI've just cloned my voice and talked to myself. It sounded like me! Proper surreal. More info here: https://www.hume.ai/blog/introducing-evi-3
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on “The most realistic and instructible speech-to-speech foundation model”Submitted TADA: Fast, Reliable Speech Generation Through Text-Acoustic Synchronization as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How we stopped YOLOing our MCP tool descriptions with role-play-based evals as a story · 1 points
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