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ProductOct 24, 2026
Block unveils Dessa, a speech-only voice model designed for local use
Block has unveiled Dessa, a full-duplex speech-to-speech model that can listen and speak at the same time. Block says it trained the model entirely on human speech using a single NVIDIA GPU rack. Publ...
ProductOct 24, 2026
Block introduces Dessa, a speech-to-speech model trained without text
Block has unveiled Dessa, a full-duplex AI voice model that the company says was trained from scratch entirely on human conversations. It uses no text or pretrained models, according to the announceme...