Conversational Speech Model - generates speech with natural turn-taking, backchannels and interruptions. Built specifically for multi-turn dialogue with real-time response generation.
Sesame CSM is a local speech model from Sesame AI. It is best suited for dialogue, streaming, realtime, emotion workflows. Check the license before commercial use.
gpuapple
pytorchsafetensors
Built-in conversational voices
low
Apache 2.0
2025-03
pip install sesame-csmdialoguestreamingrealtimeemotion
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