Hume EVI 2
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- Hume AI
- C · CEO & Politics
- Alan Cowen — No public partisan activity documented
- D · Date
- 2024
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Cloud (API)
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- USA
- K · Key Staffers
- Alan Cowen (CEO/Founder)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- Emotionally Intelligent Voice
- N · Safety Issues
- Voice cloning misuse potential.
- O · Open Source
- Proprietary
- P · Pricing
- Retired (deprecated August 30, 2025)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- 4/10 · AIDb v2.0 (rule-based): Capability 4/10 · Currency 4/10 · Access 5/10 · Significance 4.5/10 → 4.22
- R · What Makes It Special
- Hume's second-generation Empathic Voice Interface, a real-time speech-to-speech voice AI that measured the user's vocal expression and responded with empathic speech. Hume deprecated EVI 1 and 2 on August 30, 2025 in favor of EVI 3, and is shutting down its whole EVI and TTS APIs on November 13, 2026.
- S · Stock / Status
- Private
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- API only
- X · X Handle
- @hume_ai
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Proprietary Emotionally Intelligent Voice from Hume AI, released 2024.
Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-06-11 · Primary source ↗
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