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October 29th, 2026 at 7:50 AM

Block 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 only on human conversation audio. It runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max, but Block has published no size, benchmarks or weights. The post Block Unveils Dessa, a Full-Duplex Speech Model Trained Only on Speech appeared first on MarkTechPost .

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