Dessa (research preview)
Block introduced Dessa, a full-duplex speech model trained from scratch on human conversation, with speech input and output and no text or pretrained-model training. It is a research preview, with early access offered to a small group of AI safety researchers.
For buildersIf you can access the preview, evaluate interruption handling, latency, and emotional nuance in a short spoken task, with human review before relying on responses.