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Block trained its new voice AI entirely on speech, without using any text.
Dessa lead @RagavanThurair says even his team didn't expect it to develop such strong language understanding:
"It's trained entirely on speech, which is crazy. This company's training it just on speech, they have less data, it's a lot harder, how the hell are they gonna learn language like that? But somehow ours ended up better."
"I thought we would have to have text to get to this level of conversation understanding. We didn't expect it would learn language this good."
"People have done this before, like GSLM and Hertz-dev. The big gap is ours has a really strong understanding of language and you can actually have a realistic conversation with it."
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