# Hume AI

> Empathic Voice Interface that understands and expresses emotions.

Hume AI is an empathic AI company developing models that understand and respond to human emotional expression across voice, text, and video. Its Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) is the first AI voice interface with emotional intelligence — detecting nuances in tone, pacing, and expression to respond with appropriate empathy and conversational awareness. Developers building mental health applications, customer service systems, and educational platforms use Hume AI to create AI interactions that feel genuinely human-aware rather than coldly transactional, representing a new paradigm in how AI interfaces with the emotional dimension of human communication.

## Quick facts

- Categories: AI Assistant, Voice
- Pricing: Freemium (free plan + paid tiers)
- Free plan: Yes
- Official site: https://hume.ai
- Last checked: 2026-10-22

## Key features

- Empathic AI models
- Emotional expression voice AI
- Facial action unit analysis
- Real-time emotion recognition
- EVI empathic voice interface
- Developer APIs

## Use cases

- Building emotionally aware AI applications
- Creating empathic voice AI companions
- Emotion analysis for user research
- Mental health and therapy support tools

## Links

- Nextool.ai page: https://nextool.ai/tools/hume-empathic/
- Alternatives: https://nextool.ai/alternatives/hume-empathic/

Source: Nextool.ai (https://nextool.ai/tools/hume-empathic/). Pricing and features change; confirm on the provider's site before relying on them.