Saturday, 24 October, 2026
Block Unveils 'Dessa': The AI That Learns to Chat Entirely by Listening
By TechShots Studio
Jack Dorsey’s fintech firm Block has introduced Dessa, a groundbreaking speech-to-speech AI model. Trained exclusively on raw human conversation without any text or pretrained language models, Dessa can handle simultaneous listening and speaking (full-duplex), manage natural interruptions, and express real-time emotions like laughter and hesitation. It is lightweight enough to run locally on a MacBook.
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