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AI Voice · first seen 29 October 2026, 07:50 UTC

Block unveils Dessa full-duplex speech model

A full-duplex conversational speech model trained purely on speech audio, from a fintech not a voice lab.

Block's AI lab released Dessa, a full-duplex speech-to-speech model trained only on human conversation audio. It runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max, but Block published no size, benchmarks or weights.

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