Dessa

Dessa

Block
Higgs Realtime

Higgs Realtime

Boson AI
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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

Higgs Realtime is a production-quality, real-time speech-to-speech model and API built for natural, continuous conversation. It is an end-to-end, instruction-tuned, audio-native model that can understand audio, text, or both and generate high-quality responses, while also functioning as a text LLM when given text alone. Designed for live voice agents, it follows conversations, handles interruptions, adapts when requests change mid-sentence, and carries multi-step workflows through to completion. The model is trained specifically for voice-agent reflexes such as natural turn-taking, conversational cadence, tone adaptation, spoken tool preambles, multi-turn state tracking, and robust instruction following through changing requests. Semantic turn detection helps distinguish a completed turn from a pause, while multilingual and code-switched understanding supports more than 100 languages without per-language setup.

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Audience

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

Audience

Product teams, developers, and organizations building voice agents seeking to create low-latency, multilingual, interruption-aware conversational AI that can use tools and complete real-time workflows

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$0.0023 per minute
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Company Information

Block
Founded: 2009
United States
block.xyz/dessa

Company Information

Boson AI
Founded: 2023
United States
staging.boson.ai/blog/higgs-realtime

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Categories

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