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“Meet Dessa, our speech model trained from scratch on human conversation.”

Block @blocksX

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Meet Dessa, our speech model trained from scratch on human conversation.

Hear it for yourself: https://block.xyz/dessa

Source: x.com/blocks/status/2113677471417819386Archived 2026-10-24 via fxtwitter (unofficial).Counts: 296,743 views, 3,684 likes, 295 reposts, 140 replies (at fetch time)Media: video poster

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  1. Research 115 days after the cutoff

    Block unveils Dessa, a full-duplex voice model trained from scratch only on recorded human conversation, with no text and no pretrained model