DessaBlock
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Realtime TTS-2Inworld
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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
Realtime TTS-2 from Inworld AI is a new generation of voice model built for real-time conversation: a voice model that feels as human as it sounds. It hears the full audio of an exchange, picks up the user’s tone, pacing, and emotional state, then takes voice direction in plain English, the way developers prompt an LLM. Instead of generating speech in isolation, it listens to prior turns of the exchange, so tone and pacing carry forward, and the same line can land differently after a joke than after bad news. Voice Direction lets developers steer delivery like a director would steer a voice actor, using natural-language descriptions rather than fixed emotion presets or sliders. Inline nonverbals like [sigh], [breathe], and [laugh] can be placed inside the text, and the model renders them as audio events. Realtime TTS-2 preserves one voice identity across more than 100 languages, including mid-utterance language switches.
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Audience
AI safety researchers and developers evaluating or building speech-based conversational AI.
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Voice AI developers building realtime agents, characters, tutors, support systems, and companions that need emotionally aware, multilingual, humanlike speech
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$25 per month
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Company InformationBlock
Founded: 2009
United States
block.xyz/dessa
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Company InformationInworld
Founded: 2021
United States
inworld.ai/blog/realtime-tts-2
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