Sesame vs Text Reader

Comparing the features of Sesame to Text Reader

Feature
Sesame
Text Reader

Capability Features

Accessibility Features
Advanced AI Models
AI WaveNet Voices
Commercial Use Allowed
Consistent Personality
Context Awareness
Continuous AI Improvement
Conversational Dynamics
Conversational Speech Generation
Dataset Size
1 million hours
Download as MP3
Educational Use
Emotional Intelligence
Evaluation Suite
Gender Selection
MaleFemale
Instant Generation
Language and Accent Variety
50+ languages and variants
Manual Input Supported
Model Sizes
Tiny: 1B backbone, 100M decoderSmall: 3B backbone, 250M decoderMedium: 8B backbone, 300M decoder
Multi-language Support
AfrikaansArabicBengaliBulgarianCatalanChineseCzechDanishDutchEnglish (Australia)English (United Kingdom)English (United States)FilipinoFinnishFrench (Canada)French (France)GermanGujaratiHindiHungarianIcelandicIndonesianItalianJapaneseKannadaKoreanLatvianMalayalamMandarinNorwegianPolishPortuguese (Brazil)Portuguese (Portugal)RomanianRussianSerbianSlovakSpanish (Spain)Spanish (United States)SwedishTamilTeluguThaiTurkishUkrainianVietnamese
Multiple Speaker Handling
Objective Metrics
Word Error RateSpeaker SimilarityHomograph DisambiguationPronunciation Consistency
Partial Multilingual Support Planned
Planned for 20+ languages
Pronunciation Correction
Sequence Length
2048
Single-Stage Model
Subjective Metrics
Comparative Mean Opinion Score
Text and Audio Input
TextAudio
Training Epochs
5
Unlimited Downloads
User-Friendly Controls
Voice Options

Integration Features

API Integrations
GitHub Release
LLama Architecture Backbone
Mimi Split-RVQ Tokenizer
Supported Output Formats
MP3
Upload TXT Files

Limitation Features

Cannot Model Conversation Structure
English Language Dominance
Export Format Limitation
.txt
Free Tier Character Limit
1000
Memory Bottleneck in Training
No Mention of API
No Pre-trained Language Model Use
Real-Time Generation Delay
RVQ time-to-first-audio scales poorly

Pricing Features

Free Preview
Free Tier
Monthly Voice Generation Limit
3 hrs/month
Open Source
Apache 2.0
Premium Plan Monthly
$18/mo
Pro Annual Plan
$15/mo (billed annually)
Voice Generation Limit (Annual)
36 hrs/year