Hume AI vs Sama
Relationship
Data Solutions and Sama Annotate do comparable work on data labelling; scale not recorded for either.
Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.
3 of 6 capabilities — Shares data analysis, data labelling and evaluation and observability.
Ludbee capability tags · from the product recordsShared product type — Both ship data service and platform.
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Capability overlap
Shared · 3
Not verified for Sama · 3
Recorded for Hume AI. Sama’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.
Not verified for Hume AI · 2
Recorded for Sama. Hume AI’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.
Products, side by side
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Hume AI
Platform
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.
Data service
Data Solutions is Hume's licensed AI training-data offering, headlined 'Voice Training Data Built by Researchers, for Researchers' and described as 'Datasets for creating realistic voices across global languages, powering our own state-of-the-art models, and now available to power yours.' The catalogue spans voice datasets covering 50+ languages, 48+ emotions and 600+ voice descriptors, plus expression and multimodal datasets for facial expression, vocal bursts, speech prosody and text emotion. Hume also sells custom data collection with defined speakers and recording conditions, and API access for programmatic data refresh and generation.
Sama
Platform
Sama's data annotation and validation platform, combining annotation tooling, SamaAssure quality assurance, SamaHub project management and reporting, and SamaIQ analytics, with a REST API and CLI for pipeline integration.
Data service
Sama Annotate is Sama's enterprise data annotation offering, delivering image, video and 3D point cloud labeling through a full-time in-house annotation workforce working on the Sama Platform, with CLI and API access for automated data workflows.
Sama Curate is a data curation offering that uses filtering and curation algorithms to suggest which assets in a raw dataset should be labeled, so teams annotate only the data most likely to improve an ML model.
Sama GenAI supplies human-generated training and evaluation data for foundation models, covering model validation and fact checking, instruction following, preference ranking, image and video captioning, creative writing, synthetic data creation and RAG evaluation.
Sama Validate is a managed human-in-the-loop service in which trained reviewers inspect and correct a customer's model predictions across image, video and 3D point cloud data and report where the model performs well or poorly.
No counterpart
Hume AI sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Sama yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.
Application
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.
API service
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.