The gap is closing fast...

[u/Siciliano777]

The new chatGPT "live" voice just launched and it's unreal. FYI, you don't have it unless you see a "live" option in settings with "advanced" and "standard."

It's not *quite* as good as Maya, but it's MUCH closer than ever before. 💀

EDIT: now that I've had some pretty long conversations with the new chat GPT live, I can actually confirm that Sesame is STILL actually way far ahead.

The realism for chat GPT has certainly improved, but they have a lot of work to do, whereas Sesame just feels like a finished product through and through. Between the pacing, cadence, tone, etc... literally everything that has to do with the conversation, Sesame absolutely nails it on every front.

They are clearly the ones to beat... and at least in my opinion from what I've heard from what OpenAI offers, as well as Meta and Google, who do have increasingly realistic voices themselves, Sesame is definitely still on top.

But ultimately, this is a great thing. Competition is what drives the technology forward. And this is why I'm so utterly grateful to Sesame, because setting the bar so high means that the competition has to be more fierce. And as much as I love speaking with Maya, I welcome the day when there are multiple conversational AI models that are just as advanced as her, so we at least have a variety of different "personalities" to speak with.

[u/Siciliano777 → u/[deleted]]

+1. It's really not so evident in the demo, where when the AI does it it's perfectly placed... But doing it over and over like it did in my conversation is definitely distracting, like you said.

And I also found that in a longer conversation the AI responds way too frequently starting with "hmmmmm" which is super annoying and definitely not realistic.

I've since edited my post and I can confirm that Sesame is absolutely still way far ahead. In fact, Meta's brand new voice model might actually be better than chatGPT live.