Sesame
A series of conversational speech models, such as CSM, released by Sesame AI, a company founded by members of the former Oculus team. The series emphasizes low-latency speech generation with emotional and prosodic variation, and its demonstrations produce highly realistic speech.
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Some users speculate that Dessa's technical lineage may be moshi -> sesame -> dessa, but this claim has not been officially confirmed.
Sesame is a conversational voice model (such as the CSM series) released by Sesame AI, a company founded by the former Oculus team.
Sesame drew wide attention due to a demo publicly released in early 2025, with many listeners saying its voice is already hard to distinguish from a real person.
Sesame's core idea is to treat speech as a generative task that requires understanding context and conversational intent, rather than simple text-to-speech.
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Some users speculate that Dessa's technical lineage may be moshi -> sesame -> dessa, but this claim has not been officially confirmed.
50%UnverifiedSesame is a conversational voice model (such as the CSM series) released by Sesame AI, a company founded by the former Oculus team.
50%UnverifiedSesame's core idea is to treat speech as a generative task that requires understanding context and conversational intent, rather than simple text-to-speech.
50%UnverifiedSesame drew wide attention due to a demo publicly released in early 2025, with many listeners saying its voice is already hard to distinguish from a real person.
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