Building a listed tool
Alan Cowen
Named behind 2 listings on Anchor Terminal.
What Alan builds
Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) C · Conversational voice agents
Hume's hosted voice-agent service, accessed through a WebSocket API.
CEO and Chief Scientist, Hume AI, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Hume Octave Voice Design and Cloning + MCP C · Voice cloning & custom voices
Custom voices for Hume's Octave TTS and EVI.
CEO and Chief Scientist, Hume AI, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Backed by
EQT Union Square Ventures Nat Friedman Daniel Gross Metaplanet Northwell Holdings Comcast Ventures LG Technology Ventures
Questions
Who is Alan Cowen?
Alan Cowen is CEO and Chief Scientist of Hume AI, leading its team of engineers, AI scientists and psychologists. He developed semantic space theory, the approach to emotion science behind Hume's data-driven methods for measuring human expression.
What does Hume AI make?
Anchor Terminal lists Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) and Hume Octave Voice Design and Cloning + MCP from Hume AI. Hume's hosted voice-agent service, accessed through a WebSocket API.
Who has invested in Hume AI?
The sources our research read name EQT, Union Square Ventures, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Metaplanet, Northwell Holdings, Comcast Ventures and LG Technology Ventures.
How are Alan's tools graded?
Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) is graded C, 56.7 out of 100; Hume Octave Voice Design and Cloning + MCP is graded C, 54.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
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