Sesame AI

Sesame AI is a conversational AI company that builds voice companions capable of natural and emotionally resonant conversations. It has built emotionally intelligent voice assistants called Maya and Miles that can interrupt, laugh, change tone mid-sentence, and respond to emotional cues in real-time conversations. Unlike traditional voice assistants that follow a rigid speech-to-text-to-speech pipeline, Sesame's Conversational Speech Model (CSM) processes both text and audio tokens simultaneously, enabling natural conversational flow with 200-300 millisecond response times. Sesame’s goal is to build lifelike computers that act as useful companions for daily life.