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Octave 2 (preview)

Hume AI's language-model-based text-to-speech model; Hume is sunsetting its TTS and EVI APIs on 2026-11-13.

  • Hume AI
  • Closed
  • Released 3 Oct 2025

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Where it ranks

  • C
    Text to speech
    Models · Cloud · 1,055 on Artificial Analysis Speech Arena: Text to Speech (provider voices)

Facts

Vendor
Hume AI
Family
Octave
Released
3 Oct 2025
Weights
Closed: API and apps only
License
proprietary
API price
$88 per 1M characters (Artificial Analysis normalised price for Octave 2 (USD per 1M characters).)
Last verified
19 Oct 2026

Price from artificialanalysis.ai, 18 Oct 2026.

Benchmark results

BenchmarkResultEntry on the leaderboardAs ofSource
Artificial Analysis Speech Arena: Text to Speech (provider voices)1,055Octave 2
Provider Voice Arena, all categories and accents; rank 61 of 96, 3151 appearances, 95% CI ±12; raw value from the page's embedded data (shown rounded); no last-updated date shown, so as_of = retrieval date.
18 Oct 2026artificialanalysis.ai

Where you can use it

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Earlier versions

  • Octave TTS · 26 Feb 2025

Sources