Sesame, Voice Mode and Almost Human

Can AI sound too human? Sesame's Maya is as unsettling as it is amazing - try it for free
In a blog post yesterday titled "Crossing the Uncanny Valley of Conversational Voice," the company dropped a demo of its new AI chatbot that lets you talk to either "Maya" or "Miles." The goal, Sesame says, is to achieve something called "voice presence" or the "magical quality that makes spoken interactions feel real, understood, and valued."
Sesame AI: The Voice Assistant That Seems Almost Human
Sesame AI’s voice assistant uses advanced speech technology to create natural, emotionally aware conversations that feel more human than ever.
I Tried Sesame AI’s Voice Companion, and It Was Like Talking to a Real Person
Move over ChatGPT as Sesame offers a superior AI voice companion, and its Maya voice engages in natural and human-like conversations.
Creepy human-like AI voice assistant demo both excites and disturbs the internet
Researchers at Sesame AI have launched a new Conversational Speech Model (CSM). This advanced voice AI has phenomenal human-like qualities that we have seen before from
Talking with Sesame's AI voice companion is amazing and creepy - see for yourself
As a general rule, I'm not a huge fan of talking to AI. Even though many of them sound pretty human, they're still "off" enough that I much prefer typing when I want to converse with one. Sesame changed that.
Sesame And The Promise Of Real AI Voice
In a way, we’ve always known this was the watershed moment for AI – when we actually start conversing with these digital entities, as if they were real people. In terms of Hollywood‘s exposition of real life,
I compared Sesame to ChatGPT voice mode and I'm unnerved
Trying the new voice assistant from AI startup Sesame is the first time I momentarily forgot I was talking to a bot. Compared ...
Eerily realistic AI voice demo sparks amazement and discomfort online
In late February, Sesame released a demo for the company's new Conversational Speech Model (CSM) that appears to cross over what many consider the "uncanny valley" of AI-generated speech, with some ...
I was so freaked out by talking to this AI that I had to leave
Fifteen minutes after “hanging up” with Sesame’s new “lifelike” AI, and I’m still freaked out. So-called “conversations” with ...
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Sesame AI Creates Lifelike AI Voices, Garners Praise On Social Media
It's hard to break the clutter in the increasingly crowded AI space at the moment, but every now and then, a product manages ...
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Sesame is the first voice assistant I’ve ever wanted to talk to more than once
immediately coming up with a Gnome engineer named Maya cobbling together deathtraps to protect my castle from incoming Orc invaders. Combined with the AI’s natural-sounding pauses, it felt more ...
I tried the most realistic AI voice companion ever created - if ChatGPT or Gemini ever gets this good, reality is in trouble
Unlike the AI voices we’ve come to know from ChatGPT, Gemini, or going back to the early days of Siri and Alexa, Sesame is ...