Alphabet (Google) vs Hume AI

A named tab in Google Search — "our most powerful AI search, with more advanced reasoning and multimodality" — that answers a query conversationally over web sources rather than with a link list.

Standalone mobile app (iOS/Android) delivering personalized, AI-illustrated daily stories synthesized from a user's connected Google services (Gemini, Gmail, Calendar, Photos, YouTube, Search).

Google's assistant for chat, research, image generation and work across Google apps.

A source-grounded research tool that summarizes, answers questions from and generates audio overviews of documents a user uploads.

AI filmmaking application for creating cinematic clips and scenes, built on Veo (video), Imagen (image) and Gemini (prompting) — the application layer above the Veo model already recorded in models.json.

Agentic music co-producer, formerly ProducerAI and graduated from Google Labs, that chats with you about ideas, generates and edits songs, learns your style, and offers free unlimited downloads.

An AI-assisted video creation and editing application bundled with Google Workspace that generates video from text prompts, slides or screen recordings.

A Google Labs science tool (built with Gemini Notebook) that runs a comprehensive literature search, structures results in a data table and produces reports, slide decks and infographics.

AI-powered concepting board for exploring, expanding and refining visual/creative ideas.

Google Labs experiment; explicitly waitlisted at evaluation time.

Enterprise search and retrieval service on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI Search) that indexes an organisation's websites, documents and structured data and serves search, answers and recommendations to applications and agents.

A managed Google Cloud API that transcribes audio to text, supporting streaming and batch recognition across 85+ languages.

A managed Google Cloud API that synthesizes natural-sounding speech from text across 380+ voices and 75+ languages.

A managed Google Cloud API that translates text and documents across more than 100 language pairs using neural machine translation, custom models or a translation-specialized LLM.

A managed Google Cloud API for image and document analysis, including object, face and landmark detection, OCR text extraction, and explicit-content tagging.

A pay-per-page API for extracting, classifying and summarizing structured data and text from documents such as invoices, forms and IDs.

ML-based text understanding: sentiment analysis, entity recognition, syntax analysis and content classification.

Video AI service that analyzes video content for object/label/shot detection and other video-intelligence tasks.

Lets analysts create, train and run machine-learning and generative-AI models inside BigQuery with GoogleSQL — from trained regression and forecasting models to remote calls on Gemini and Cloud AI APIs — without moving the data out.

Google Cloud's platform for training, tuning, serving and evaluating models and agents.

Google Cloud's customer-experience suite — Customer Experience Agent Studio, Agent Assist, Customer Experience Insights and Contact Center as a Service — for building AI agents and assisting human agents across contact-centre channels.

Creator Studio is Hume's web application, hosted at app.hume.ai, for turning written documents into narrated audio: 'From document to audio, effortlessly. Import your content, assign voices, add acting directions, and export production-ready audio.' Hume targets it at creators producing audiobooks, videos, podcasts, documentaries, e-learning courses and corporate training that need multi-voice narration with emotional direction.

Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) is Hume's real-time speech-to-speech voice AI API, described in Hume's docs as 'an advanced, real-time emotionally intelligent voice AI.' The product page markets it as a way to 'Build voice-first AI experiences that understand and respond to human emotions' and states it 'works seamlessly with Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, Kimi K2, Llama, and more' - layering voice on top of third-party language models rather than supplying its own. It is billed per conversation minute on Hume's public plans.

The Expression Measurement API measures emotional and vocal expression in speech, marketed as 'Measure expression in voice, offline or in real time.' Hume describes two endpoints on the one page: 'The Tagger API returns 600+ expression and voice dimensions from any audio, at scale. The Prosody API delivers real-time emotional expressions during live conversations.' Measured dimensions include emotion categories, speaking styles, vocal qualities such as pace, warmth and hesitation, and expression intensity with confidence scores.

The Human Feedback API sells human evaluation of voice and conversational AI as an API call, marketed as 'One API call. Real human ratings.' and 'Plug human evaluation into your pipeline. Audio in, structured results out.' It supports three study types - live conversations with AI models, single-sample audio ratings with custom questions, and side-by-side A/B comparisons - with Hume handling participant recruitment, quality control and fraud detection. Hume states it powers 'evaluation for Hume's own frontier voice models.'

Octave TTS is Hume's text-to-speech API, which Hume's documentation calls 'the first text-to-speech system built on LLM intelligence.' The marketing page positions it as 'Text-to-speech with emotional intelligence' that generates 'expressive, natural-sounding speech that conveys the full range of human emotion,' with SDKs for Python, TypeScript, .NET and Swift and streaming audio output. It is billed by characters on Hume's public self-serve plans.

Evaluation platform for voice agents: it builds evaluation suites from real-world use cases, simulates agent-to-agent and human-to-agent conversations against any voice model, and tracks regressions over time.