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24 alternatives to Sesame

Conversational speech model that achieves voice presence

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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sesameai ▲16
Sesame AI: Voice Assistant - Natural Conversations with AI
2025 · sesameai.info · its alternatives →
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I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work▲915
Built a ~9M param LLM from scratch to understand how they actually work. Vanilla transformer, 60K synthetic conversations, ~130 lines of PyTorch. Trains in 5 min on a free Colab T4. The fish thinks the meaning of life is food. Fork it and swap the personality for your own character.
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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TalkMe▲558
Personal AI tutoring makes language learning fun & effective
2025 · talkme.ai · its alternatives →
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Play AI▲447
The voice interface of AI
2024 · its alternatives →
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PlayHT 2.0▲85
AI Voices that can think and talk like humans
2023 · its alternatives →
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Tough Tongue AI 2.0▲481
A multimodal agent to create, share and rehearse scenarios
2025 · toughtongueai.com · its alternatives →
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PlayDialog Beta▲57
The first multi-turn voice AI model built for conversation
2024 · its alternatives →
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AI Voices by Asyncflow v1.0▲401
Premium AI voice quality without the premium price tag.
2025 · async.com · its alternatives →
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Parrot Speech-to-text API▲194
Fast, accurate STT for production-grade voice agents
May 2026 · ringg.ai · its alternatives →
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Conversable▲123
Conversational intelligence through voice and text
2017 · conversable.com · its alternatives →
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OpenAI GPT-4o Audio Models▲379
Build Powerful Voice Agents
2025 · openai.com · its alternatives →
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Voice bots with 500ms response times▲315
Last year when GPT-4 was released I started making lots of little voice + LLM experiments. Voice interfaces are fun; there are several interesting new problem spaces to explore. I'm convinced that voice is going to be a bigger and bigger part of how we all interact with generative AI. But one thing that's hard, today, is building voice bots that respond as quickly as humans do in conversation. A 500ms voice-to-voice response time is just barely possible with today's AI models. You can get down to 500ms if you: host transcription, LLM inference, and voice generation all together in one place;…
2024 · fastvoiceagent.cerebrium.ai · its alternatives →
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PlayHT-Turbo▲148
The fastest generative AI Text-to-Speech API
2023 · its alternatives →
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Hume OCTAVE ▲152
A next-generation speech-language model
2024 · hume.ai · its alternatives →
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AI Voice Creator▲129
Voice creator by ElevenLabs, Ssemble plugin
2023 · ssemble.com · its alternatives →
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Deepgram MissionControl▲159
Train and deploy speech AI models for free
2020 · console.deepgram.com · its alternatives →
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Content Conversations by Serviceform▲132
Engaging graphical conversations that convert visitors
2020 · serviceform.com · its alternatives →
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AssemblyAI: Universal-3 Pro Streaming▲118
The most accurate streaming speech model for voice agents.
Mar 2026 · assemblyai.com · its alternatives →
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DialogLab▲123
Authoring, simulating, testing human-AI group conversations
Mar 2026 · research.google · its alternatives →
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AI Speech Therapist▲99
Becoming the world's best therapist, engaging & affordable
2023 · betterspeech.com · its alternatives →
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Speechactors▲68
AI-driven text to speech generation
2022 · speechactors.com · its alternatives →
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MulmoChat▲88
Modular Interface for visually interactive AI responses
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Speechllect▲66
Speech Intellect is the first STT/TTS solution
2023 · speechllect.com · its alternatives →
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Xpeacho▲40
Transform Text into Lifelike Speech with Ease
2024 · xpeacho.com · its alternatives →

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