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View entryVoice companions, Maya and Miles, built to sound unnervingly natural.
Sesame builds real-time voice AI designed for extended, emotionally expressive conversation rather than short commands, with assistants that can interrupt, laugh, and shift tone mid-sentence. Co-founded by an Oculus co-creator, the company is also prototyping AI-enabled glasses meant to keep a voice companion with you throughout the day.