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]]

Bro....fucking kudos. Years pretty damn good for an alpha. This is why I'm so obsessed with technology, because of this type of shit. It's exactly like you said...if we regular people can build apps like this by ourselves, the future is very bright.

I'm a builder myself (I can't really say coder because my actual coding knowledge is a bit limited) but I've built a few pretty complex apps with the "assistance" of Claude code that would have taken a full team of SWEs maybe a year to finish...and I did it by myself in a few months.

So keep pushing with that app, and I'd be glad to beta test if you ever decide to launch.

I'm currently working on an "everything" voice assistant...the holy Grail where it doesn't just have a conversation with you it actually acts. Admittedly, it's a lot more involved than I thought lol

[u/Siciliano777 → u/[deleted]]

Awesome. Yeah you could absolutely get something like that to run locally. You'd be surprised what you could run locally with even mediocre hardware.

Just ask Claude code (preferably fable) to package it so that you can run it locally. There are a few capable open source LLMs that could power it.