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Compared to Whisper API
Sesame vs Whisper API
Comparing the features of Sesame to Whisper API
Feature
Sesame
Whisper API
Capability Features
Consistent Personality
Context Awareness
Conversational Dynamics
Conversational Speech Generation
Dataset Size
1 million hours
Emotional Intelligence
Evaluation Suite
Language/Country Support
100+ languages
Latest Whisper Model
Whisper Large V3
Model Sizes
Tiny: 1B backbone, 100M decoder
Small: 3B backbone, 250M decoder
Medium: 8B backbone, 300M decoder
Multiple Speaker Handling
Non-Developer Access
Objective Metrics
Word Error Rate
Speaker Similarity
Homograph Disambiguation
Pronunciation Consistency
Partial Multilingual Support Planned
Planned for 20+ languages
Pronunciation Correction
Response Format Selection
json
Scale for Millions
Sequence Length
2048
Single-Stage Model
Speaker Diarization
Speaker Labels
Subjective Metrics
Comparative Mean Opinion Score
Summary Generation
Text and Audio Input
Text
Audio
Training Epochs
5
Translation Capability
Integration Features
API Integrations
File Formats Supported
mp3
video
podcasts
meetings
GitHub Release
LLama Architecture Backbone
Mimi Split-RVQ Tokenizer
OpenAI API Compatibility
Programming Language Agnostic
Limitation Features
Cannot Model Conversation Structure
English Language Dominance
Memory Bottleneck in Training
No OpenAI Affiliation
No Pre-trained Language Model Use
Real-Time Generation Delay
RVQ time-to-first-audio scales poorly
Pricing Features
Free Preview
Free Transcription Hours
30
Free Trial Package
Hourly Pricing
$0.17/hour
Open Source
Apache 2.0
Trial Period
1 month