Dessa
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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Phonic-1
Phonic-1 is a real-time speech-to-speech AI model offered through Phonic’s voice-agent development platform. It processes spoken input and generates spoken responses, supporting streaming conversations, configurable voices, turn-taking, and interruption handling. Developers can access the model through an API and SDKs, then use Phonic’s hosted tools to build, test, and deploy conversational voice agents. The platform is designed for developers and businesses creating voice applications for customer support, sales, appointment handling, and other spoken interactions. It includes options for hosted or self-managed deployment and provides documented integrations and webhook-based connections to external services. Phonic states that its voice technology supports more than 50 languages.
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Grok Speech to Text (STT)
Grok Speech to Text is a standalone audio API built to help developers integrate fast, accurate transcription into any application. Built on the same stack that powers Grok Voice, Tesla vehicles, and Starlink customer support, the API is designed for use cases such as voice agents, real-time transcription tools, accessibility solutions, podcasts, meeting capture, telephony, and interactive audio experiences. Grok STT can generate transcripts from large audio files through a REST API or transcribe speech in real time through a low-latency WebSocket API. It includes word-level timestamps, speaker diarization, multichannel support, and intelligent Inverse Text Normalization that converts spoken language into properly formatted structured output for numbers, dates, currencies, and more. Grok Speech to Text is evaluated across phone calls, meetings, video and podcast content, and telephony, with strong performance in entity recognition and business use cases.
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GPT-Live-1.1
GPT-Live-1.1 is OpenAI’s full-duplex voice model for real-time conversational use in ChatGPT Voice. It listens and speaks continuously, so it can follow pauses, interruptions, and shifts in speaking pace rather than waiting for a clearly completed turn. In ChatGPT, Live conversations can combine voice with text and images, and may use web search, memory, and connected apps according to the account, plan, and workspace settings. Access is provided through ChatGPT experiences on the web and supported mobile apps, with availability and usage limits determined by plan. The model is intended for individuals and organizations that want spoken assistance for questions, brainstorming, information lookup, and everyday tasks. GPT-Live-1.1 succeeds GPT-Live-1 in OpenAI’s voice-model family.
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