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Sesame is an impressive real time conversational audio-to-audio model you can talk to on their website [1]. But it's closed source. They released some components, but nothing you could use to duplicate their work.

Sesame is what this team (and lots of teams) want to build. I know another team trying to build a real time local NSFW girlfriend you can talk to. They're convinced they can reach $100M ARR quickly if they crack it and make it customizable.

KyutaiTTS provides a lot of the ingredients for this work, but it isn't conditioned for audio to audio afaik or any of the streaming components.

[1] https://app.sesame.com/