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Hume (Octave)

by Hume AI, Inc. · AI Voice

NOT YET TESTED ⚠ Low-confidence facts Price not yet verified Status: pivoted

Last tested: never · Facts last updated: Oct 8, 2026 · Official pages checked: Oct 8, 2026

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Low-confidence facts: some facts about Hume (Octave) could not be confirmed on its official pages (see the note below and the Sources box). We leave unconfirmed values blank and do not fill them from third-party sites.

What it is

expressive TTS (Octave) / voice-AI evaluation

SUNSETTING TTS: official docs (dev.hume.ai, 2026-10-08): 'Hume is sunsetting the TTS and EVI APIs. Access ends November 13, 2026 ... Any data in your account is permanently deleted after November 13, 2026.' hume.ai/pricing now presents the VoiceEQ evaluation platform; no current Octave prices on official pages. DROPPED from round-1 voice testing by CEO decision 2026-10-08 (replaced by Gemini TTS); still tracked.

Scores by job

A tool can be #1 for one job and mediocre for another, so we score each job separately (0–100).

Test results

📏 MEASURED RESULT

Objective metrics recorded by our test harness (same inputs for every tool). Raw outputs are archived as evidence.

NOT YET TESTED
✍️ EDITORIAL JUDGMENT

Subjective assessment by our evaluators, blind where possible. This is opinion, labelled as such — not a measured fact.

NOT YET TESTED
📁 EVIDENCE

Evidence: Hume (Octave)'s raw outputs

Same input for every tool. We publish the first output (no cherry-picking), with the date, plan and model version used, plus a SHA-256 hash of the file.

NOT YET TESTEDNo outputs published yet.

When the test round runs, each task appears here as a row with one column per tool.

Best at

Editorial

NOT YET TESTED

Pros & cons

Editorial

NOT YET TESTED

Who should use it

NOT YET TESTED

Who should not

NOT YET TESTED

Pricing

Price not yet verified We could not read prices from the official pages. Check the official pricing page before buying.

Privacy & data handling (official-page facts, not a score)

Quoted from Hume (Octave)'s official policy, security and pricing pages. Our privacy score (methodology v0.2) is published only after the full desk check and in-account verification. Until then: NOT YET TESTED. Items not listed here are not stated on the pages we checked.

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    source (official page, archived text) · checked Oct 8, 2026 · not yet verified in a test