The Decoder· Matthias Bastian·· 12 h ago
Block's new AI model Dessa was trained entirely on human speech to catch emotions text-based models miss
Block's new AI model Dessa was trained entirely on human speech to catch emotions text-based models miss
AI summary
Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, has introduced Dessa, a speech model that processes audio directly instead of converting it to text first. Dessa is designed to recognize emotions, sarcasm, and pauses in real time. The model runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max but isn't publicly available yet.
Selection record
Threshold 76Media and individualsFirst 58Second 58
Not admittedSum of both 116 < twice the threshold 152
- Source tier
- Media and individuals; this tier's threshold is 76
- Pre-filter
- passed：介绍Block新AI语音模型Dessa及训练细节
- Same event
A model scores each item twice, independently, against one written standard, out of 100. An item is admitted only when the two scores add up to twice the threshold. The threshold is set per source tier.
Source: The Decoder · the-decoder.com