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’s voice assistant uses advanced speech technology to create natural, emotionally aware conversations that feel more human than ever.

In a blog post titled "Crossing the Uncanny Valley of Conversational Voice," the company dropped a demo of its new AI 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,

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,