AI, EQ & Communication News ใป ๐ Empathy and emotional intelligence in AI
The Decoder ยท 10/24 14:13 UTC

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.