Dessa

Dessa

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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.

About

Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 is a speech-to-text model from Mistral AI that converts audio recordings into written transcripts through an API. Developers can submit audio for batch transcription and receive text with timestamps and speaker labels. It supports multilingual transcription, speaker diarization, and context biasing, which lets an application supply names or specialized vocabulary to guide recognition. The model is designed for developers building applications and audio workflows that need to make recorded speech searchable, attribute words to speakers, or align transcript segments with audio. Teams can call it through Mistral's hosted API and incorporate its output into their own software, such as transcription pipelines and voice-enabled services. It is a model/API offering rather than a standalone recording or editing application.

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Audience

AI safety researchers and developers evaluating or building speech-based conversational AI.

Audience

Software developers and product teams integrating multilingual audio transcription into applications, audio-processing workflows, and voice-enabled services.

Support

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Pricing

$0.0035/min
Standard input is $0.0035 per audio minute; cached input is $0.00035 per minute.
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Training

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Company Information

Block
Founded: 2009
United States
block.xyz/dessa

Company Information

Mistral AI
Founded: 2023
France
docs.mistral.ai/models/voxtral-mini-transcribe-3-0

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Eleven Realtime

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Categories

AI Voice Models Supported

Categories

AI Voice Models Supported
Speech to Text Supported

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