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Developers and businesses in search of a solution to integrate emotionally intelligent, real-time voice AI into their applications
About EVI 3
Hume AI's EVI 3 is a third-generation speech-language model that streams in user speech and forms natural, expressive speech and language responses. At conversational latency, it produces the same quality of speech as our text-to-speech model, Octave. Simultaneously, it responds with the same intelligence as the most advanced LLMs of similar latency. It also communicates with reasoning models and web search systems as it speaks, “thinking fast and slow” to match the intelligence of any frontier AI system. EVI 3 can instantly generate new voices and personalities instead of being limited to a handful of speakers. For instance, users can speak to any of the more than 100,000 custom voices already created on our text-to-speech platform, each with an inferred personality. No matter the voice, it responds with a wide range of emotions or styles, implicitly or on command.
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Hume AI
Founded: 2021
United States
www.hume.ai/blog/introducing-evi-3
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