Free Podcast Transcription vs Sesame

Comparing the features of Free Podcast Transcription to Sesame

Feature
Free Podcast Transcription
Sesame

Capability Features

Accuracy Improvement
More accurate
Consistent Personality
Context Awareness
Conversational Dynamics
Conversational Speech Generation
Dataset Size
1 million hours
Desktop Apps
Edit Transcription
Emotional Intelligence
Evaluation Suite
Export SRT Subtitles
Fast Transcription
10x faster
Get Public URL
Language Support
EnglishArabicArmenianAzerbaijaniBasqueBelarusianBengaliBulgarianCatalanChineseCroatianCzechDanishDutchEstonianFilipinoFinnishFrenchGalicianGeorgianGermanGreekGujaratiHebrewHindiHungarianIcelandicIndonesianIrishItalianJapaneseKannadaKoreanLatinLatvianLithuanianMacedonianMalayMalteseNorwegianPersianPolishPortugueseRomanianRussianSerbianSlovakSlovenianSpanishSwahiliSwedishTamilTeluguThaiTurkishUkrainianUrduVietnameseWelshYiddish
Model Sizes
Tiny: 1B backbone, 100M decoderSmall: 3B backbone, 250M decoderMedium: 8B backbone, 300M decoder
Multiple Speaker Handling
Objective Metrics
Word Error RateSpeaker SimilarityHomograph DisambiguationPronunciation Consistency
Online and Desktop Use
Partial Multilingual Support Planned
Planned for 20+ languages
Privacy and Security
Pronunciation Correction
Runs Locally
Sequence Length
2048
Single-Stage Model
Subjective Metrics
Comparative Mean Opinion Score
Text and Audio Input
TextAudio
Training Epochs
5

Integration Features

Audio File Formats
MP3Wide variety of audio file formats
GitHub Release
LLama Architecture Backbone
Mimi Split-RVQ Tokenizer
Podcast Integration

Limitation Features

Cannot Model Conversation Structure
Device Performance Dependent
English Language Dominance
Keep App Open Requirement
Manual Language Selection Required
Memory Bottleneck in Training
No Cloud Processing
No Explicit API Integration
No Pre-trained Language Model Use
No User Account Required
Real-Time Generation Delay
RVQ time-to-first-audio scales poorly

Pricing Features

Free Preview
Free Tier
Open Source
Apache 2.0
Pricing Plans
Completely free