OCTAVE 3B

Closed weights Hume 3B parameters December 2024

No estimate

No hardware requirements for this model

The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.

On record

Full specification

Everything on record for this model. Most of it describes how it was trained rather than how it runs — useful context for judging how much work went into it, and how it compares with models built at a different scale.

Origin

Who built this model, where, and when it was published.

Organisation
Hume
Organisation type
Industry
Country
United States of America
Published
23 December 2024

What it does

The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.

Domain
Speech
Task
Speech synthesis, Text-to-speech (TTS)

Size

How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.

Parameters
3B

3B

Training data
tokens

Availability

Whether you can obtain the model and run it on your own hardware, which is what decides if any of the graphics-card figures on this page apply.

Weights
Closed — provider access only
Model access
API access
Training code
Unreleased

https://dev.hume.ai/docs/text-to-speech-tts/overview

How it is classified

Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.

Record confidence
Confident

Sources

Where this record came from and when it was last checked.

Reference
Introducing OCTAVE (Omni-Capable Text and Voice Engine)
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

What this model is

OCTAVE 3B was published by Hume, in the country recorded as United States of America, during December 2024. It comes out of an organisation categorised as industry.

It works in the domain of Speech, and is recorded as performing the task of speech synthesis, Text-to-speech (TTS).

Because the weights are not available, none of the hardware figures elsewhere on this site apply to it.

Answers

OCTAVE 3B — common questions

01

OCTAVE 3B— who created it?

It was published by Hume, based in United States of America, an organisation categorised as industry.

02

OCTAVE 3B— when was it released?

It was published in December 2024. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

03

OCTAVE 3B— what is it used for?

It works in the domain of Speech, and is recorded as handling the task of speech synthesis, Text-to-speech (TTS). Models frequently carry more than one of each, and the tags describe purpose rather than capability limits.

04

OCTAVE 3B— what GPU do I need to run it?

None. This is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.

05

OCTAVE 3B— is it open source?

No. Its weights have not been published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

06

OCTAVE 3B— how many parameters does it have?

It has a parameter count of 3B. 3B. That figure is the total, and it is what decides how much memory the model needs — roughly half a gigabyte per billion at the compression most people use.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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