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

Dograh is an open source, self-hostable voice agent platform with a no-code workflow builder for creating production voice agents. Teams can choose their own inbound channels, speech-to-text, LLM, text-to-speech, and telephony providers, or replace the traditional cascade with speech-to-speech models for direct audio-in, audio-out conversations with natural turn-taking, interruption handling, and low latency. The platform supports inbound and outbound calling, widgets, telephony integrations, observability, traces, real-time analytics, hybrid pre-recorded voice plus TTS, and more than 70 languages. Its MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor, OpenClaw, Codex, and other agent runtimes create, modify, and deploy voice agents directly from development environments. Dograh can run on your own servers, inside a private cloud or VPC, or in a managed environment, with support for models hosted entirely within your perimeter.

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Audience

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

Audience

Developers, businesses, and regulated organizations seeking to build, customize, deploy, and self-host production voice AI agents with control over models, integrations, telephony, and data

Support

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Pricing

1¢ per minute
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Training

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Company Information

Block
Founded: 2009
United States
block.xyz/dessa

Company Information

Dograh
United States
www.dograh.com

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Categories

AI Voice Models Supported

Categories

AI Voice Agents Supported

Integrations

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Not Supported
Assembly Not Supported
Calendly Not Supported
Claude Code Not Supported
Codex CLI Not Supported
Cursor Not Supported
ElevenLabs Not Supported
Gladia Not Supported
Google Not Supported
Groq Not Supported
Hugging Face Not Supported
Inworld Not Supported
Langfuse Not Supported
Microsoft Azure Not Supported
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Not Supported
OpenAI Not Supported
OpenClaw Not Supported
OpenRouter Not Supported
Speechmatics Not Supported
Telnyx Not Supported

Integrations

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Supported
Assembly Supported
Calendly Supported
Claude Code Supported
Codex CLI Supported
Cursor Supported
ElevenLabs Supported
Gladia Supported
Google Supported
Groq Supported
Hugging Face Supported
Inworld Supported
Langfuse Supported
Microsoft Azure Supported
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Supported
OpenAI Supported
OpenClaw Supported
OpenRouter Supported
Speechmatics Supported
Telnyx Supported
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