Sesame vs Linda

Comparing the features of Sesame to Linda

Feature
Sesame
Linda

Capability Features

24/7 Availability
Automatic Podcast Creation
Call Transcripts & Recordings
Consistent Personality
Context Awareness
Conversational Dynamics
Conversational Speech Generation
Custom Interviews
Dataset Size
1 million hours
Download Data for Personal Use
Ease of Use
Emotional Intelligence
Evaluation Suite
Guided AI Interviews
Memory-Driven Conversations
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
Personalized Questions
Podcast Teaser Creation
Privacy Controls
Professional Editing
Pronunciation Correction
Seasonal and Themed Interviews
Secure & Private
Sequence Length
2048
Single-Stage Model
Subjective Metrics
Comparative Mean Opinion Score
Text and Audio Input
TextAudio
Training Epochs
5
User Owns Data
Voice First Interface

Integration Features

Apple App Store Integration
GitHub Release
LLama Architecture Backbone
Mimi Split-RVQ Tokenizer
Podcast Hosting
Linda Platform

Limitation Features

Cannot Model Conversation Structure
English Language Dominance
Exclusive Hosting
Free Plan Interview Limit
2
Memory Bottleneck in Training
No Mention of Non-Apple Platforms
No Mentioned Integrations
No Pre-trained Language Model Use
Real-Time Generation Delay
RVQ time-to-first-audio scales poorly

Other Features

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Pricing Features

Cancel Anytime
Free Plan Features
Access to 2 InterviewsPodcast Episode Creation & HostingPodcast Teaser Creation & Hosting
Free Plan Limitations
2
Free Preview
Free Tier
Free Trial
Gift Subscription Option
Open Source
Apache 2.0
Premium Plan
Unlimited access to all interviewsCustom interviews made just for youPersonalized conversationsLinda remembers what you've sharedExclusive access to monthly & seasonal interviewsAutomatic podcast episode creationPodcast hosted 24/7 on the Linda PlatformPrivacy controls for every episodeDownload your Podcast data
Premium Plan Price Monthly
$9.99/month
Premium Plan Price Yearly
$99.99/year