 The startup Hume AI has a demo of what it calls the first emotionally intelligent AI voice. It's called EV, short for Empathic Voice Interface, although I'm still not sure if I'm pronouncing its name right. My name's not EV, but no worries. I'm so sorry, what's your name? On the screen appears a list of the emotional expressions the AI is detecting in my apology. Sympathy, empathic pain, and guilt, which is kind of how I sounded.