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About
Dessa is Block's speech-to-speech artificial intelligence model for conversational voice research and applications. It takes audio input and produces audio output directly, without converting speech into text as an intermediate step. Trained from scratch on human conversation rather than text, the model supports full-duplex interaction, listening and speaking at the same time, and runs locally on a MacBook Pro with an M4 Max chip or better. It captures conversational cues such as emotion, sarcasm, laughter, pauses, and turn-taking that can be lost in text-based pipelines. Dessa is intended for AI safety researchers and developers studying voice-model behavior, privacy, and real-time interaction. It is a speech model for research and development, not a general-purpose business application or hosted voice-agent platform.
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About
Velma is a voice-native AI model developed by Modulate as part of a broader voice intelligence platform, designed to understand conversations directly from audio rather than relying on text transcripts. Unlike traditional systems that convert speech into text and analyze it with language models, Velma uses an Ensemble Listening Model (ELM), a specialized architecture that processes multiple dimensions of voice simultaneously, including tone, emotion, pacing, intent, and behavioral signals. This allows it to capture the full meaning of a conversation, not just the words spoken, recognizing nuances such as stress, deception, sarcasm, or escalation in real time. It operates by combining hundreds of specialized detectors, each focused on specific aspects of speech like emotional state, inappropriate conduct, or synthetic voice indicators, and then fusing those signals into higher-level insights about what is happening in a conversation.
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Audience
AI safety researchers and developers evaluating or building speech-based conversational AI.
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Enterprise operations and trust & safety teams that need real-time voice intelligence to monitor conversations, detect risk, and enforce compliance across human and AI interactions
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$0.25 per hour
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Company InformationBlock
Founded: 2009
United States
block.xyz/dessa
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Company InformationModulate
Founded: 2019
United States
www.modulate.ai/velma
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