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  "slug": "hume-ai",
  "name": "Hume AI",
  "url": "https://www.hume.ai",
  "cat": "gen",
  "group": "ai",
  "tagline": "Emotionally expressive TTS",
  "price": "Free 10K chars/mo, no commercial licence. Starter $3 (30K), Creator $14 (140K, commercial), Pro $70 (1M), Scale $200 (3.3M), Business $500 (10M). Overage $0.05-$0.15 per 1K characters.",
  "tier": "mixed",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "Speech company focused on emotional prosody. <b>Octave 2</b> is an LLM-based TTS that reads context to decide how a line should be delivered and accepts plain-language acting directions. EVI is its empathic voice interface for agents, and an Expression Measurement API scores emotion in audio, video and text.",
  "why": "The only TTS you can direct like an actor - tell it to sound sarcastic, hesitant or relieved and it complies rather than just reading the words. Best fit for narrative games, audio drama and characters that need real range.",
  "warn": "The commercial licence starts at the <b>$14 Creator plan</b>; the Free and $3 Starter tiers explicitly exclude commercial use. Overage rates vary nearly 3x across tiers, so heavy usage on a low plan gets expensive quickly.",
  "install": "REST and WebSocket APIs for Octave TTS, EVI and Expression Measurement; measurement is pay-as-you-go from $0.0639/min.",
  "category": {
    "key": "gen",
    "name": "AI media generation",
    "desc": "Image, video, voice and music. Commercial rights differ wildly by tier — check every warn.",
    "group": "ai",
    "groupName": "Put AI inside it"
  },
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  "health": {
    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": "https://www.hume.ai/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T23:43:12.623+00:00"
  },
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}