# Hume AI Octave Projects at AI Tinkerers

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Octave is Hume AI's Omni-Capable Text and Voice Engine (OCTAVE): a voice-based large language model that generates emotionally nuanced, context-aware, and human-like speech.

Octave is not a standard text-to-speech (TTS) model; it is a proprietary voice-based LLM designed for expressive communication. The engine interprets text context to predict emotion, cadence, and sarcasm, then delivers speech with unprecedented realism. It generates complete personalities—not just voices—from simple descriptive prompts, such as a 'gentle therapist' or a 'dramatic medieval knight.' Octave can also extract and clone a speaker's full vocal identity and personality from a recording as brief as five seconds. In blind comparison tests, 180 human raters favored Octave's outputs over a competitor's for audio quality (71.6%) and naturalness (51.7%), confirming its position as a frontier voice technology.

- Official technology site: https://hume.ai
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 1
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [How and why we built an MCP server for our Text-To-Speech](https://las-vegas.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_wtpm60sTRl0)

I will talk about building Hume AI's TTS MCP server (in progress, should be released by May) that we provide to let AI-savvy users use our Text-To-Speech capabilities from a chatbot. The themes are: * You can use technologies like MCP to serve (ai-savvy) users who have sophisticated workflows. Two years ago you would need to build bespoke UIs and APIs to model your users' workflows, but now you can get 80% of the way there by just wrapping your core capabilities with something like MCP and let the chatbot do the rest. * AI Voice is finally here. It's good enough to use in serious creative or professional projects.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Las Vegas - May Inaugural Meetup — 2025-05-09 — Las Vegas
- Public talk page: https://las-vegas.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_wtpm60sTRl0

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