Ankit Kumar
Co-founder & CTO, Sesame. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Ankit Kumar is the co-founder and CTO of Sesame, where he leads engineering and research on conversational speech models. He previously co-founded Ubiquity6 and Pilot AI, and led the Clyde AI engineering team at Discord.
1shows
1appearances
56statements
9resolved
7supported
2contradicted
78%fully supported
Everything Ankit Kumar said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
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's speech generation is conditioned on full conversation audio
“The speech generation part is conditioned on the, on all the audio of the conversation.”
Kumar: Sesame targets sub-500 millisecond response times for voice AI
“We want You know, sub-five hundred millisecond response times, and a lot of things that feel like not a big deal, 50 milliseconds here, 50 milliseconds there, can really add up.”
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.”
Kumar: Larger speech models handle homographs and context-dependent pronunciation better
“And we see that as the models get bigger, they're much better at picking the right pronunciation in examples like this.”
Kumar: Sesame evaluates speech models against real human conversation continuations
“We also have some data sets that are kind of like Just two people in a conversation or sometimes they're actors, but it's trying to be a real conversation. And so we'll kind of take the conditioning of some snippet of the conversation and then show a human rat…”
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…”
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 a16zLEDGER | Co-founder & CTO, Sesame | 1 | 56 | 78% 7/9 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |