Sesame alternatives
6 audio tools in the same lane as Sesame, ranked by editorial score.
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Hume AI
Audio · Octave, EVI, TADA
8.0
Emotionally intelligent voice AI with expressive TTS, speech-to-speech, and human-feedback evaluation APIs.
Freemium· Free: $0 · Starter: $3 · Creator: $7 · Pro: $70 · Scale: $200expressive-ttsvoice-cloning
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ElevenLabs Conversational AI
Audio · ElevenLabs Scribe (ASR) + pluggable LLM + ElevenLabs TTS
8.1
Production-grade voice agent platform layering ElevenLabs TTS, ASR, and LLM orchestration into a single deployable stack.
Paid· Free: $0 · Starter: $6 · Creator: $11 · Pro: $99 · Scale: $299voice-agentsivr-replacement
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Respeecher
Audio · Proprietary Respeecher voice models
8.1
Studio-grade AI voice cloning and TTS used by Hollywood productions for speech-to-speech and dubbing work.
Freemium· Free trial; TTS API $2/hour pay-as-you-go; custom enterprise pricing for voice cloningvoice-cloningtext-to-speech
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Dia
Audio · Dia-1.6B
7.3
Open-weights 1.6B text-to-dialogue model that generates ultra-realistic multi-speaker conversations in one pass.
Free· Free, open weights (Apache 2.0); hosted larger version waitlisteddialogue-generationvoice-cloning
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Murf AI
Audio · Murf Gen2 / Murf Falcon
6.9
Studio-grade text-to-speech and real-time voice agents with 200+ voices across 35+ languages.
Freemium· Free: $0 / month · Creator: $19 / month · Business: $66 / month · Enterprise: Customtext-to-speechvoice-cloning
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Voicebox
Audio · Multi-model (Chatterbox, Qwen TTS, Whisper, etc.)
7.4
Open-source desktop voice studio for local cloning, dictation, and giving MCP agents a voice.
Free· Free and open source; optional $VOICEBOX token donationsvoice-cloningtext-to-speech