Conversational Speech Model (CSM)Conversational AIsBland AIHumeMini OmniElevenLabs ConversationalSesame AI Hertz-devIntroducing hertz-dev - Standard IntelligenceFor the last few months, we at Standard Intelligence have been researching scalable cross-modality learning. We're excited to announce that we're open-sourcing current checkpoints of our full-duplex, audio-only base model, hertz-dev, with a total of 8.5 billion parameters and three primary parts:https://si.inc/hertz-dev/Conversational InterfaceThe case against conversational interfacesConversational interfaces are a bit of a meme. Every couple of years a shiny new AI development emerges and people in tech go "This is it! The next computing paradigm is here! We'll only use natural language going forward!". But then nothing actually changes and we continue using computers the way whttps://julian.digital/2025/03/27/the-case-against-conversational-interfaces/
