Conversational AI & Chatbots
Dessa
Full-duplex speech conversation model trained natively on audio
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Full-duplex real-time voice interactions
Engage in low-latency voice conversations that permit natural interruptions, concurrent speaking, and expressive feedback.
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About Dessa
Dessa is an audio-native conversational foundation model developed by Block. Unlike traditional voice assistants that pipeline distinct Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Large Language Model (LLM), and Text-to-Speech (TTS) models together, Dessa processes and generates continuous audio tokens end-to-end.
By avoiding cascading pipeline overhead, Dessa delivers human-grade conversational latency, seamless mid-sentence interruptions, and fine-grained emotional prosody. Developers and researchers can explore full-duplex spoken dialogue that captures paralinguistic cues, vocal inflection, and dynamic pacing in real time.
- Native audio-in, audio-out architecture avoids pipeline latency
- Fluid mid-speech interruption handling and natural turn-taking
- Rich vocal expression, emotional inflection, and natural acoustic response
- Early research preview with limited public developer API access
- Higher GPU compute requirements compared to text-only foundation models
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