Block's AI Lab Unveils Dessa, a Full-Duplex Speech Model Trained Only on Speech
Block's AI lab released Dessa, a full-duplex speech-to-speech model trained solely on human conversation audio. It runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max, though Block has published no size, benchmarks or weights.
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- 2026-10-29 07:50 · MarkTechPost
Block Unveils Dessa, a Full-Duplex Speech Model Trained Only on Speech
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