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Entrepreneur Murillo Pereira writes, this is incredible. The voice sounds so natural and the replies are so fast, maybe too fast. It was even able to pronounce my name, which isn't super common. Better conversationalist than many humans. Signal writes, My lord, the Sesame Voice AI is absolutely effing insane. I knew it was artificial. I knew there wasn't a real person on the other end.

And yet I still felt like I was talking to a person. I felt the same social pressure, the same awkwardness when I hesitated, the same discomfort when I misspoke. It wasn't just convincing, it worked on me in a way I didn't expect. I used to think I'd be immune to this. Menlo's Didi Das sums up, this is the GPT-3 moment for voice AI, the movie Her.

And yet I still felt like I was talking to a person. I felt the same social pressure, the same awkwardness when I hesitated, the same discomfort when I misspoke. It wasn't just convincing, it worked on me in a way I didn't expect. I used to think I'd be immune to this. Menlo's Didi Das sums up, this is the GPT-3 moment for voice AI, the movie Her.

And yet I still felt like I was talking to a person. I felt the same social pressure, the same awkwardness when I hesitated, the same discomfort when I misspoke. It wasn't just convincing, it worked on me in a way I didn't expect. I used to think I'd be immune to this. Menlo's Didi Das sums up, this is the GPT-3 moment for voice AI, the movie Her.

Everything we had before was turn by turn, robotic, emotionless with no human tics. This, as Didi points out, is something very different. Now, in terms of some of the details, one of the big innovations that's almost going a little underappreciated is that the voice model is actually extremely small.

Everything we had before was turn by turn, robotic, emotionless with no human tics. This, as Didi points out, is something very different. Now, in terms of some of the details, one of the big innovations that's almost going a little underappreciated is that the voice model is actually extremely small.

Everything we had before was turn by turn, robotic, emotionless with no human tics. This, as Didi points out, is something very different. Now, in terms of some of the details, one of the big innovations that's almost going a little underappreciated is that the voice model is actually extremely small.

Sesame trained the model on approximately a million hours of audio, but managed to bake it down into a 1 billion parameter model with 100 million parameter decoder. They also produced a 3B and an 8B model, which suggests this level of voice assistant will be very cheap and likely able to run on local devices.

Sesame trained the model on approximately a million hours of audio, but managed to bake it down into a 1 billion parameter model with 100 million parameter decoder. They also produced a 3B and an 8B model, which suggests this level of voice assistant will be very cheap and likely able to run on local devices.

Sesame trained the model on approximately a million hours of audio, but managed to bake it down into a 1 billion parameter model with 100 million parameter decoder. They also produced a 3B and an 8B model, which suggests this level of voice assistant will be very cheap and likely able to run on local devices.

Tosh wrote, The cost of speech-to-speech is going to zero once Sesame open-sources the weights. Sesame, which was co-founded by Oculus co-founder Brandon Uribe, has also committed to releasing the model under the Apache 2.0 commercial use license. So what then is their play? Is this a competitor, for example, to Eleven Labs? In point of fact, Sesame is actually going for something different.

Tosh wrote, The cost of speech-to-speech is going to zero once Sesame open-sources the weights. Sesame, which was co-founded by Oculus co-founder Brandon Uribe, has also committed to releasing the model under the Apache 2.0 commercial use license. So what then is their play? Is this a competitor, for example, to Eleven Labs? In point of fact, Sesame is actually going for something different.

Tosh wrote, The cost of speech-to-speech is going to zero once Sesame open-sources the weights. Sesame, which was co-founded by Oculus co-founder Brandon Uribe, has also committed to releasing the model under the Apache 2.0 commercial use license. So what then is their play? Is this a competitor, for example, to Eleven Labs? In point of fact, Sesame is actually going for something different.

Their webpage reads, "...bringing the computer to life. We believe in a future where computers are lifelike. They will see, hear, and collaborate with us the way we're used to. A natural human voice is key to unlocking this future." And so to get there, they write they have two goals.

Their webpage reads, "...bringing the computer to life. We believe in a future where computers are lifelike. They will see, hear, and collaborate with us the way we're used to. A natural human voice is key to unlocking this future." And so to get there, they write they have two goals.

Their webpage reads, "...bringing the computer to life. We believe in a future where computers are lifelike. They will see, hear, and collaborate with us the way we're used to. A natural human voice is key to unlocking this future." And so to get there, they write they have two goals.

The first is a personal companion, which they describe as an ever-present brilliant friend and conversationalist, keeping you informed and organized, helping you be a better version of yourself.

The first is a personal companion, which they describe as an ever-present brilliant friend and conversationalist, keeping you informed and organized, helping you be a better version of yourself.

The first is a personal companion, which they describe as an ever-present brilliant friend and conversationalist, keeping you informed and organized, helping you be a better version of yourself.

And second, and this is where the product vision comes in, lightweight eyewear, designed, they say, to be worn all day, giving you high quality audio and convenient access to your companion who can observe the world alongside you. So in terms of why Sesame could think about just giving away what seems like such a big innovation, it's because they're playing a very different type of game.