Speech Generation

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Kumar: Sesame trained 1B, 3B, and 8B parameter models for speech generation
“So we published in the, in our blog post, we trained three variants. We trained 1,000,000,003 1,000,000,008 billion of just speech generation.”
Ankit Kumar Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 47:07 Building the Next Generation of Conversational AI
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Kumar: Open source won't solve AI voice and personality features
“But other parts in particular, kind of some of the personality aspects, some of the voice aspects, the speech generation, we didn't think and we still don't think will just be kind of done by the community. We think we will need to do it because that's kind of…”
Ankit Kumar Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 17:30 Building the Next Generation of Conversational AI

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