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Kumar: Sesame achieves voice cloning via in-context learning prompt strings
“The model is this kind of, you know, it has kind of this in context learning style voice cloning. I mean, typically with some other kind of text-to-speech models, the voice cloning is kind of like an explicit feature. So it's sort of the model has dedicated ki…”
Kumar: Sesame will not build a one-size-fits-all AI companion
“So we're certainly not going to, we don't see our product as like one companion that's the same for everyone. People have different preferences and that has to be a part of this kind of product category for sure.”
Kumar: Sesame's AI voice companions currently cannot execute tasks
“Maya and Miles today, they can't do anything for you”
Kumar: Sesame base model generates any voice with fine-tuning
“We are open sourcing the speech generation base model basically. And so the base model can generate any voice. It's quite conversational, but you do need to fine tune it probably if you want to get a particular personality or a particular kind of voice out of …”
Kumar: Sesame is developing a companion AI app with persistent memory
“We are making an app. We will make an app. I think for a little bit of time, it's going to still be kind of the demo experience. We want to support people using that for a long time, or, you know, we don't want to, we're not taking it away anytime soon from wh…”