Hume OCTAVE
A next-generation speech-language model
Hume OCTAVE launched on December 25, 2024 with 152 votes, #288 of 5,365 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
What it does
A frontier speech-language model with new emergent capabilities, like on-the-fly voice and personality creation
A frontier speech-language model with new emergent capabilities, like on-the-fly AI voice and personality creation.
We’re introducing OCTAVE (Omni-Capable Text and Voice Engine), a next-generation speech-language model that combines the capabilities of our EVI 2 speech-language model with those of systems like OpenAI’s Voice Engine, Elevenlab’s TTS Voice Design, and Google Deepmind’s NotebookLM. From descriptive prompts or recordings as brief as 5s, OCTAVE generates not just voices, but personalities (language, accent, expressions, underlying disposition, etc.) that can talk to you. And it can generate multiple, interacting AI personalities and voices within a real-time response. Maintaining the capabilities of a similar-sized frontier LLM, OCTAVE is well-suited to power AI systems that communicate…from hume.ai
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