# Hume Octave — card for AI agents

Octave TTS with voice cloning and an official MCP server.

Category: Voiceover (text-to-speech) · maker Hume AI · checked 2026-10-10

## Price
- Price: Free tier
- Free tier: 10,000 chars/month, non-commercial (via search).
- Paid from $3/month
- Usage price: Starter $3 (non-commercial); Creator $14 is the first commercial tier; overage $0.15/1K (Creator) to $0.05/1K (Business). Via search.
- Pricing page: https://www.hume.ai/pricing

## License
not stated

- commercial: **conditions** (Commercial use with conditions)
  > Free and Starter subscription tiers are limited to non-commercial use only.
  (https://dev.hume.ai/voice/docs/text-to-speech-tts/faq)
- in app: **conditions** (Ship inside your app with conditions)
  > Customer may only use the Service internally for developing and supporting its own applications.
  (https://www.hume.ai/terms-of-use)
- youtube: **conditions** (Monetized YouTube with conditions)
  > your use must comply with Hume's prohibited use policy
  (https://dev.hume.ai/voice/docs/text-to-speech-tts/faq)
- bots: **banned**
  > including spiders, robots, crawlers, and data mining tools
  (https://www.hume.ai/terms-of-use)

## Rules to follow
- Use Creator or above for commercial use; Free and Starter are non-commercial only.
- Clone only your own voice or one from a consenting speaker.

## How an agent gets files
- TTS API with SDKs; docs at https://dev.hume.ai/docs/text-to-speech-tts/overview. (sign-in: api-key)
- Not allowed: Free and Starter plans are non-commercial only.
- Not allowed: Commercial use must follow Hume's prohibited use policy.
- Not allowed: You keep rights to your output.
- Not allowed: Terms bar spiders, robots, crawlers and data mining tools.

## How to connect
- Official MCP server
- API docs: https://dev.hume.ai/docs/text-to-speech-tts/overview (API key needed)
- npm: `npm install hume`
- PyPI: `pip install hume`
- Website: https://www.hume.ai

## Notes
The FAQ names YouTube as a commercial use case, subject to the prohibited-use policy.

## Lines to paste into your prompt or AGENTS.md

```
- Hume Octave (Voiceover (text-to-speech)). Octave TTS with voice cloning and an official MCP server. Price: free tier; commercial use with conditions; ship inside your app with conditions; no bots or bulk downloading.
  Connect: API docs https://dev.hume.ai/docs/text-to-speech-tts/overview (API key needed); npm hume; PyPI hume.
  Get files: TTS API with SDKs; docs at https://dev.hume.ai/docs/text-to-speech-tts/overview.
  Not allowed: Free and Starter plans are non-commercial only.
  Not allowed: Commercial use must follow Hume's prohibited use policy.
  Not allowed: You keep rights to your output.
  Not allowed: Terms bar spiders, robots, crawlers and data mining tools.
  Rule: Use Creator or above for commercial use; Free and Starter are non-commercial only.
  Rule: Clone only your own voice or one from a consenting speaker.
```

Not verified: All plan prices and character counts are from a search summary of hume.ai/pricing.

## Links
- AgentGid page: https://agentgid.com/assets/hume-octave/
- Is it free for commercial use? https://agentgid.com/assets/hume-octave/commercial-use/
- Source: https://dev.hume.ai/voice/docs/text-to-speech-tts/faq
- Source: https://dev.hume.ai/voice/docs/text-to-speech-tts/overview
- Source: https://dev.hume.ai/voice/docs/voice/voice-cloning
- Source: https://dev.hume.ai/voice/docs/integrations/mcp

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