Hume launches the Audio Decision API, which answers questions about audio in one call

Hume says its Audio Decision API lets developers ask questions about audio, such as how many speakers there are, whether anyone is laughing or whether a caller is frustrated. Hume says this replaces work that used to take 10 or more models.

Hume says the model is trained on more than 10 million human judgments, so it answers the way human listeners would. It works in realtime or across hours of recordings. Access is by request through Hume's website. TestingCatalog, which covered the launch, reports that the model agreed with the panel average 70.7% of the time, against 56.5% for a single listener.