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Introducing EVI 3: the world’s most realistic and instructible speech-to-speech foundation model
At Hume, we promised ourselves that before the end of 2025, we’d achieve a voice AI experience that can be fully personalized. We believe this is an essential step toward voice being the primary way people want to interact with AI.
Alan Cowen / May 29, 2025
Voice AI for Interview Prep
Interview Optimiser is an AI-powered platform that helps job seekers prepare for interviews through realistic, voice-to-voice mock interviews. Their mission is to equip candidates with confidence and clarity by simulating high-pressure interview scenarios. By implementing Hume's Empathic Voice Interface (EVI), they deliver dynamic, adaptive conversations and provide feedback on vocal delivery—such as tone, confidence, and emotional regulation. Their customer base includes job seekers at all career stages, as well as recruiters looking to streamline early-stage screenings. This partnership has enabled them to offer a lifelike interview experience with actionable insights, bridging the gap between practice and real-world performance.
Serena Wang / May 14, 2025
Voice AI for Social Anxiety Support
Bearwith is an AI social anxiety coach that helps people improve their social skills in a judgment-free environment. Specializing in bite-sized lessons followed by practical role-playing exercises, Bearwith empowers users of all communication skill levels to practice difficult or stressful conversations without fear. By integrating Hume's Empathic AI, Bearwith has unlocked the ability to detect and respond to users' emotional states during practice sessions, providing a more supportive and personalized coaching experience that goes beyond traditional text-based interactions.
Serena Wang / May 7, 2025
Expression Measurement for Voice Agent Testing
Roark AI provides a comprehensive platform for monitoring, evaluating, and simulating customer calls specifically for Voice AI developers. Their innovative solution eliminates the need for hours of manual testing by instantly simulating real customer scenarios and identifying potential failures before they reach customers. Serving companies across healthcare, customer support, and service-oriented businesses, Roark AI's mission is to help businesses proactively enhance their voice AI solutions to ensure high customer satisfaction ratings.
Serena Wang / Apr 27, 2025
Voice AI for Music Support
Jammy, a voice-first wellness app that uses emotionally attuned music to support users in real time, is creating an emotional operating system designed to help users feel seen, heard, and supported without the friction of traditional wellness tools. The platform combines conversational AI with emotionally aligned music recommendations, allowing users to speak freely like they would to a trusted friend, and receive playlists, prompts, or support tailored to how they actually feel. Hume’s EVI plays a critical role in this experience, enabling Jammy to analyze vocal cues such as tone, intensity, and nuance. This emotional signal powers Jammy’s real-time content recommendations, making each interaction feel personally relevant and emotionally attuned.
Serena Wang / Apr 23, 2025
Emotion AI for Market Prediction
MoodMetrics AI is revolutionizing financial markets by decoding the emotional undercurrents in central bank communications. Founded in 2024 at the University of Bath, the company empowers financial institutions with emotional intelligence insights by analyzing verbal and non-verbal behavior, including vocal tone, speech patterns, and micro-expressions. By integrating Hume’s Expression Measurement API, MoodMetrics detects subtle emotional cues that traditional models miss—helping investment banks, retail banks, and hedge funds anticipate market movements with greater precision. The company has been nationally recognized through awards such as the Santander UK University Startup Grant and a Sparkies Award nomination.
Serena Wang / Apr 15, 2025