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Prism EQ Pipeline

Research-grade infrastructure for your voice data.

Turn raw recordings into rich data for research and training. Prism EQ is a configurable pipeline for every stage of model development, all in your own cloud.

Pre-training · Mid-training · Post-training · Fine-tuning

Expression or sound
100 samples
Sample 0180:07
FrustrationRaspy voiceBackground noise
Sample 0450:04
HappyEnergeticClear audio
Deploy in your cloudAWSGoogle CloudAzure
Illustrative

Find the voice samples your model needs.

Search and filter your audio by emotional expression, speaking style, vocal qualities, and audio characteristics. Each sample includes transcripts, speaker labels, and measurements across 600+ expression and acoustic dimensions, with links back to your original recordings.

Audio libraryIllustrative
Emotional expression
Speaking style
Vocal qualities
Audio characteristics

312 samples

  • 00:41 · Spk A

    “No, that’s actually hilarious.”

    Amusement · 0.81Low pitch
    00:45 · Spk B

    “I thought you’d like that one.”

    ConversationalClean
    Source · recordings/rec_0412.wav

Mine conversations. Refine your dataset.

Extract use cases and run error analysis across your conversations, with a connection to Hume’s evaluation platform to generate evaluation suites. Filter out low-quality samples, recordings containing PII, and corrupted files to refine the data you use.

Conversation miningIllustrative
Use case clustersError pattern
  • Billing questions3,860
  • Order status2,910

    Error pattern:Interrupts caller

  • Account access1,740
  • Returns980

    Error pattern:Repeats question

Filtering
  • Passes quality checks9,490Retained
  • Low quality1,120Excluded
  • Corrupted files214Excluded
  • Contains PII806Scrub · optional
Use cases and errorsFrom your conversations
Evaluation suiteHume evaluation platform

Find gaps in data quality and coverage.

Use dataset analytics to see which characteristics are well represented, where examples are missing, and where audio quality needs attention. Identify what to collect, replace, or improve before the next stage of training.

Corpus overview · 11,630 samplesIllustrative
SNR
24 dB
Clipping
7.8%Needs attention
Transcript WER
4.1%
Languages
  • English58%
  • Spanish27%
  • Japanese6%
    Underrepresented
Emotional expression
  • Calmness41%
  • Amusement22%
Speaking style
  • Conversational64%
  • Read speech36%
Vocal qualities
  • Low pitch33%
  • Breathy12%
Audio characteristics
  • Clean71%
  • Far-field18%

Why Hume

A research lab’s expertise, built into your pipeline.

  • Over a decade of expression research.

    Hume’s proprietary expression models bring research into how people express and perceive emotion to audio processing at batch scale.

  • Quality checks at every step.

    Preconfigured model choices, language-specific transcription models, phoneme-level verification, and error-rate checks help you build a reliable corpus from messy audio.

  • Secure and private.

    Run Prism in your own AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure environment, so your audio and production data never leave your environment.

Turn your audio into your next training or evaluation dataset.

Talk to Hume about your recordings, development goals, and cloud environment. We’ll help define the processing steps and deployment that fit your team’s workflow.