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Block Unveils Compact Full-Duplex Voice AI Model Named Dessa
The Indian Express2h
THE BRIEF
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Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey introduced a new compact speech model named Dessa from his company Block, which can run locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max.
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The model is trained from scratch entirely on real human conversations without any text or pretrained models, enabling it to listen and talk simultaneously.
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Dessa currently operates in a research preview behind a waitlist, with no public parameter count, API, price, weights, or published evaluation.