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Block's Dessa model learns conversation from speech alone
Original: Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech
Block has introduced Dessa, a conversational model trained exclusively on speech rather than text transcripts. The approach has drawn attention for potentially capturing tone, pacing and nuance that text-based models miss, and for what it suggests about alternatives to the dominant text-first pipeline in AI assistants.
Why now: A major company is publicly exploring speech-only training, a departure from standard text-based conversational AI, prompting debate about its viability.
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