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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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    Sesame AI: Voice Assistant - Natural Conversations with AI

    2025 · sesameai.info · its alternatives →

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    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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    AI Voices that can think and talk like humans

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    A multimodal agent to create, share and rehearse scenarios

    2025 · toughtongueai.com · its alternatives →

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    The first multi-turn voice AI model built for conversation

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Premium AI voice quality without the premium price tag.

    2025 · async.com · its alternatives →

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    Fast, accurate STT for production-grade voice agents

    May 2026 · ringg.ai · its alternatives →

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    Conversational intelligence through voice and text

    2017 · conversable.com · its alternatives →

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    Build Powerful Voice Agents

    2025 · openai.com · its alternatives →

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    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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    The fastest generative AI Text-to-Speech API

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    A next-generation speech-language model

    2024 · hume.ai · its alternatives →

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    Voice creator by ElevenLabs, Ssemble plugin

    2023 · ssemble.com · its alternatives →

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    Train and deploy speech AI models for free

    2020 · console.deepgram.com · its alternatives →

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    Engaging graphical conversations that convert visitors

    2020 · serviceform.com · its alternatives →

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    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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    Becoming the world's best therapist, engaging & affordable

    2023 · betterspeech.com · its alternatives →

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    AI-driven text to speech generation

    2022 · speechactors.com · its alternatives →

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    Modular Interface for visually interactive AI responses

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    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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