Sesame’s new AI voice model features uncanny imperfections, and it’s willing to act like an angry boss.

In late 2013, the Spike Jonze film Her imagined a future where people would form emotional connections with AI voice assistants. Nearly 12 years later, that fictional premise has veered closer to reality with the release of a new conversational voice model from AI startup Sesame that has left many users both fascinated and unnerved.

  • @[email protected]
    5•1 day ago

    Yeah I immediately disregard all AI propaganda that references “Her.” This is for rubes and suckers.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      3•1 day ago

      I totally get what you’re saying but did you listen to the recordings? This might be a breakthrough.

      • Baldur Nil
        3•1 day ago

        But is it that different than the podcasts voices Google already generate with NotebookLM since a while ago?

        • @[email protected]
          1•18 hours ago

          I used Notebook LM to create a ten minute podcast but it took a lot of repeated attempts with tweaks of the prompt to make sure there was no stupid mispronouncing. Even the final product required editing out two words which were not even human (just glitches).

          Not understanding pronunciation of words is to be expected, especially when they are acronyms but sometimes it was really dumb grammar.

          Still very impressive but not quite there yet.

      • Butterbee (She/Her)English
        1•1 day ago

        Or go try the demo. It IS eerily uncanny. It’s not at the point where it would fool you for long, but it’s close enough to get caught up in it from time to time.