AI Launch Profile
Hume EVI 3 launch
Hume introduced EVI 3, a speech-to-speech foundation model for realistic and instructible voice AI.
At a glance
Launch Snapshot
- Company
- Hume AI
- Launch date
- May 29, 2025
- Launch type
- Model Release
- Category
- AI Developer Tools, AI Voice/Audio Tools
- Audience
- AI Engineers, Developers, Product Teams
- Pricing
- Free and paid API plans are listed on the official pricing page.
- Free plan
- Yes
- API
- Yes
- Open weights/source
- No
Launch Context
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Verification & Sources
- Evidence state
- Recheck due
- Source links
- 3
- Freshness
- Needs recheck: checked June 24, 2026
- Last updated
- June 24, 2026
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- Definition
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- Required provenance
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- Owner
- Kingy freshness queue owner and assigned editorial reviewer
- Freshness rule
- This is already outside its freshness rule. It must not be presented as current until reviewed against current evidence.
- Disputes and corrections
- Use “Suggest a correction” on the record. Kingy editorial reviews the cited evidence, records material corrections, and changes or removes the state when it is not supported.
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Kingy Launch Score
7.3 / 10 · Solid
One earned credibility score, computed from cited evidence — not a placeholder. How the Kingy Launch Score works
Why this score
- Source & verification 7.5/10 — The launch blog plus product and pricing pages — dated, single-vendor sourcing. hume.ai
- Product evidence 7.5/10 — A live product with an API and free plan — the model ships as a developer platform. hume.ai
- Significance & novelty 7.0/10 — A speech-to-speech foundation model for realistic, instructible voice — genuine model-level capability rather than a feature. hume.ai
- Traction signals not scored — insufficient sourced evidence
- Offer clarity 7.0/10 — Free and paid API plans are listed on the official pricing page. hume.ai
Evidence checked 2026-07-10
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Kingy AI Take
Hume introduced EVI 3, a speech-to-speech foundation model for realistic and instructible voice AI, shipping through its developer platform with free and paid API plans (hume.ai). Developers, Product Teams, and AI Engineers building expressive voice agents get model-level capability rather than a wrapper feature. Expressiveness is context-dependent, so evaluate voice quality and instruction-following on your actual conversation flows before production.
Who it is for
Developers and product teams building expressive voice agents or emotion-aware interfaces.
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