The app that wants to sound human
There's a particular moment in every AI voice interaction that breaks the spell. The assistant finishes its perfectly accurate sentence, and instead of responding naturally, it waits — silently, patiently, like a customer service machine — for you to give it the next command. The rhythm is wrong. It feels like filling out a form, not holding a conversation. Sesame AI, the startup co-founded by Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe, has spent the last several years obsessing over that exact problem. Th...Tech