A Potentially More Humane Way to Let the Machines In

Spoken is an innovative, AI-driven platform designed for independent authors who are seeking affordable alternatives to traditional audiobook production. Founded by Phil Marshall to solve the challenges he faced creating his own audiobook, Spoken empowers writers to transform their manuscripts into expressive, multi-cast audiobooks with full creative control. Powered by Hume's emotionally intelligent Text-to-Speech API, authors can now create expressive, multi-cast audiobooks that rival professional voice acting.

Hume AI has partnered with Cerebras to bring expressive, emotionally intelligent voice to Cerebras-hosted language models. The collaboration showcases Qwen-3-235b-a22b, a powerful reasoning model that demonstrates the synergy between Cerebras' ultra-fast inference infrastructure and Hume's Empathic Voice Interface (EVI), enabling voice agents that can think through complex problems while speaking with lifelike emotional intonation and word emphasis.

Hume AI has partnered with SambaNova Systems to bring expressive, emotionally intelligent voice to SambaNova-hosted language models. The collaboration addresses a key need identified by SambaNova's extensive customer base, who have been seeking SambaNova-hosted TTS solutions to complement their existing LLM infrastructure, showcasing models like Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B with seamless voice experiences within their trusted AI platform.