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24 alternatives to Hume AI

The foundational voice model for any interface

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hume AI launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Hume AI's new voice that truly understands emotion

    2025 · hume.ai · its alternatives →

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    Ash ▲837

    The first AI designed for therapy

    2025 · app.talktoash.com · its alternatives →

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    A next-generation speech-language model

    2024 · hume.ai · its alternatives →

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    Play AI▲447

    The voice interface of AI

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    A multimodal agent to create, share and rehearse scenarios

    2025 · toughtongueai.com · its alternatives →

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    Empy.ai▲259

    Refine team interactions, mitigating conflicts in slack

    2023 · empy.ai · its alternatives →

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    Research teams trust. Conversations customers love.

    2025 · getperspective.ai · its alternatives →

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    Create and chat with AI in Instagram, Messenger & WhatsApp

    2025 · ai.meta.com · its alternatives →

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    AI voice agents that adapt tone, timing & emotion by context

    Mar 2026 · elevenlabs.io · its alternatives →

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    Emotional support through empathetic AI, powered by ChatGPT

    2023 · emotionalsupport.ai · its alternatives →

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    Meta AI▲94

    The most intelligent AI assistant that you can freely use

    2024 · meta.ai · its alternatives →

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    Murror AI▲140

    AI to help battle loneliness and build relationships

    Dec 2025 · murror.app · its alternatives →

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    I work on real-time voice/video AI at Tavus and for the past few years, I’ve mostly focused on how machines respond in a conversation. One thing that’s always bothered me is that almost all conversational systems still reduce everything to transcripts, and throw away a ton of signals that need to be used downstream. Some existing emotion understanding models try to analyze and classify into small sets of arbitrary boxes, but they either aren’t fast / rich enough to do this with conviction in real-time. So I built a multimodal perception system which gives us a way to encode visual…

    Feb 2026 · raven.tavuslabs.org · its alternatives →

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    The first multi-turn voice AI model built for conversation

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Beni AI▲78

    Hi HN, I built Beni (https://thebeni.ai ), a web app for real-time video calls with an AI companion. The idea started as a pretty simple question: text chatbots are everywhere, but they rarely feel present. I wanted something closer to a call, where the character actually reacts in real time (voice, timing, expressions), not just “type, wait, reply”. Beni is basically: A Live2D avatar that animates during the call (expressions + motion driven by the conversation) Real-time voice conversation (streaming response, not “wait 10 seconds then speak”) Long-term memory so the character…

    Feb 2026 · thebeni.ai · its alternatives →

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    AI-powered, human-centered conversations

    2023 · babblebox.ai · its alternatives →

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    Explore Empathy & AI Harmony with Ambiguous Phrases

    2024 · hiddenbiases.com · its alternatives →

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    Where AI meets empathy

    2025 · hybridai.one · its alternatives →

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    AI-powered empathetic personal assistant

    2024 · mysamantha.ai · its alternatives →

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    Empathetic AI voice agents for 24/7 customer support

    2025 · brilo.ai · its alternatives →

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    AI-powered humans improving the practice of therapists

    Nov 2025 · its alternatives →

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    AI chat, AI companion, AI emotional,social,BaZi,multimodal

    2025 · lovelinkme.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, We’re the team behind HelpingAI, and we’ve been experimenting with ways to make LLM reasoning faster and more efficient, especially for complex tasks like math problems, coding questions, and logic puzzles. During a fine-tuning session of our older reasoning model, a bug accidentally introduced a think tag mid-response. Rather than break the model, it created a chain-of-thought style intermediate step — and the model got better. That bug inspired us to explore what we now call Intermediate Reasoning. We scaled this up by fine-tuning Qwen3-14B on 3 trillion tokens of…

    2025 · helpingai.co · its alternatives →

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    AI-powered tools for therapists, psychologists, counsellors.

    2025 · evieassist.ai · its alternatives →

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