Sesame voice demo
Shares rank 5 of 6 voice AI models by recommenders
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.
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.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 83%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Realtime natural conversational audio
“Sesame is an impressive real time conversational audio-to-audio model you can talk to on their website”
Comment from 28 Nov 2025 in “Open (Apache 2.0) TTS model for streaming conversational audio in realtime” “Seems like only Sesame and NVDIA so far have nailed the natural conversation flow”
Comment from 27 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: LemonSlice – Give your voice agents a face” “Sesame was the best full-duplex voice demo I ever came across”
Comment from 5 Mar 2026 in “Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift” Impressive, polished voice demo
“Sesame is an impressive real time conversational audio-to-audio model you can talk to on their website”
Comment from 28 Nov 2025 in “Open (Apache 2.0) TTS model for streaming conversational audio in realtime” “Sesame was the best full-duplex voice demo I ever came across”
Comment from 5 Mar 2026 in “Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift” “holy shit I cannot believe how polished that is.”
Comment from 5 Mar 2026 in “Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift”
Other voice AI models people recommend
The four most recommended other voice AI models, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-Live | 72 | 48 | 60% | 4 | — | — |
| Gemini Live | 50 | 23 | 68% | 9 | — | Approved |
| Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B | 14 | 8 | 64% | 4 | — | — |
| gpt-realtime | 6 | 6 | 50% | 4 | — | — |
| Sesame voice demoThis page | 5 | 1 | 83% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
All 6 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“holy shit I cannot believe how polished that is.”
“Sesame was the best full-duplex voice demo I ever came across”
“Seems like only Sesame and NVDIA so far have nailed the natural conversation flow”
“the power offered by the combo Nova+Sesame”
“a native search that in my opinion is better than Sesame”
“Sesame is an impressive real time conversational audio-to-audio model you can talk to on their website”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.