# Hume — Introducing the Hume Voice Controllability Leaderboard

- Company: Hume (hume.ai)
- Announced: not stated by the source (first seen 2026-09-17T13:13:34.513274+00:00)
- Category: research-paper
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://www.hume.ai/blog/introducing-the-hume-voice-controllability-leaderboard
- Record: https://forck.live/items/11709-introducing-the-hume-voice-controllability-leaderboard
- Subject: EVI / Octave

Hume introduced the Voice Controllability Leaderboard, a benchmark that evaluates how well text-to-speech models follow given directions. The leaderboard found that for some models, control changes have no effect regardless of the direction provided.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.hume.ai/blog/introducing-the-hume-voice-controllability-leaderboard:

> New leaderboard tests whether text-to-speech models actually follow direction, finding that for some models the dial doesn't move no matter what you ask.

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