# Sesame voice demo

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Sesame voice demo and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended as a realtime, full-duplex voice model you can talk to on its website, with polished, natural conversation flow. One commenter found a native search tool better, but that is a single critical comment.

## Why people recommend it

- Realtime natural conversational audio (3 comments): "Sesame is an impressive real time conversational audio-to-audio model you can talk to on their website" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46079065)) "Seems like only Sesame and NVDIA so far have nailed the natural conversation flow" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46786357)) "Sesame was the best full-duplex voice demo I ever came across" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47262588))
- Impressive, polished voice demo (3 comments): "Sesame is an impressive real time conversational audio-to-audio model you can talk to on their website" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46079065)) "Sesame was the best full-duplex voice demo I ever came across" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47262588)) "holy shit I cannot believe how polished that is." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47262689))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [GPT-Live](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gpt-live.md): 72 recommend
- [Gemini Live](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gemini-3-8-live.md): 50 recommend
- [Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B](https://hackerapproved.com/p/personaplex.md): 14 recommend
- [gpt-realtime](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gpt-realtime-2.md): 6 recommend
- [Unmute](https://hackerapproved.com/p/unmute-sh.md): 5 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.sesame.com/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Sesame voice demo", https://hackerapproved.com/p/sesame/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).