Podse.io vs Sesame

Comparing the features of Podse.io to Sesame

Feature
Podse.io
Sesame

Capability Features

Annotation Tools
Any Format Support
Automated Translations
Spanish
Consistent Personality
Context Awareness
Conversational Dynamics
Conversational Speech Generation
Custom Dictionaries
Dataset Size
1 million hours
Emotional Intelligence
Evaluation Suite
Export Transcript
Full Text Search
Industry Leading AI
Inline Editing
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
Partial Multilingual Support Planned
Planned for 20+ languages
Playback Controls
Project Collaboration
Pronunciation Correction
Sequence Length
2048
Single-Stage Model
Speaker Identification
Subjective Metrics
Comparative Mean Opinion Score
Text and Audio Input
TextAudio
Training Epochs
5
Transcription

Integration Features

GitHub Release
Integration Details
LLama Architecture Backbone
Mimi Split-RVQ Tokenizer

Limitation Features

Cannot Model Conversation Structure
English Language Dominance
Export Format Limitation
Copy full text with timestamps
Memory Bottleneck in Training
No Explicit Free Tier Limits
No Pre-trained Language Model Use
Real-Time Generation Delay
RVQ time-to-first-audio scales poorly
Standard Plan Limit
10 hours per month

Pricing Features

Custom Pricing Contact
Free Preview
Free Trial Package
Open Source
Apache 2.0
Pro Plan Features
Sharable full text searchAutomated translations to Spanish
Standard Plan Audio Limit
10 hours of audio or video / mo.
Standard Plan Pricing
$14.99/mo