Dessa’s Big Bet: What If AI Learned Language by Listening, Not Reading?

Block says its new voice model learned from human conversations alone. The interesting part isn’t just how natural it sounds — it’s what… Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Ebrahim Mousavi·8h ago

Dessa Can Hear You Cry. Nobody Can Read What It Said.

Block just built the most human voice AI anyone has heard. It is also the hardest voice AI anyone will ever have to test. Continue reading on Agents Under Test »

Medium · Asad Khan·6d ago

Jack Dorsey’s Dessa Sounds Human. Are We Cooked?

by Cordero Core — I was driving home from Tacoma when my friend Jaquell sent me a link with four words:

Medium·Oct 26

What is Block’s Dessa? The Voice AI That Learned to Talk Before It Could Read

by Levent Bulusan — Block trained it on nothing but recorded human conversation: no text, no borrowed language model. I timed 92 of its turns in Block’s demos…

Medium·Oct 25

Block's new AI model Dessa was trained entirely on human speech to catch emotions text-based models miss

The Decoder·Oct 24

Jack Dorsey’s Block made an AI model that talks to you like an awkward new friend

Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model called Dessa that's trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation," and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can...

The Verge AI·Oct 23

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...

Marktechpost·4d ago

Dessa AI Voice Model: Block’s Speech AI That Hears Emotion

Trained on speech, not text: the Dessa AI voice model from Block listens while it talks. Here is what it does, what it runs on and who gets access. The post Dessa AI Voice Model: Block’s Speech AI...

AIMiracle.ai·6d ago

Model Suara Dessa: Apa Itu AI Khusus Suara Milik Block

OrcaRouter·Oct 26

Block Unveils Dessa Voice AI as Critics Warn of Phone Scams

Northeast Times·Oct 25

Block Built a Voice AI That Never Read a Word. Builders in Ghana Should Be Paying Attention.

by Felix Sam Nanor (Tech with Nanor) — Dessa learned to talk from raw conversation audio alone. For languages that live mostly in speech, that could matter more than any new…

Medium·Oct 24

Check Out the Many Uncanny, Human-ish Voices From Block’s New AI Model

The model goes by Dessa. Presumably because, once you hear it talk, you'll say "'Dessa' pretty convincing human voice." ...

Gizmodo·Oct 23

Jack Dorsey’s ‘Dessa’ wants you to forget AI isn’t a person

Washington Examiner·5d ago

Block Rebuilt Voice AI From Scratch. Dessa Learned to Talk Without Ever Reading.

by Vinay Bhaskarla — Trained only on human conversation, it laughs mid-sentence, hears the emotion text throws away, and runs on a MacBook Pro.

Medium·6d ago

A Voice AI That Laughs Mid-Sentence Now Runs on a Laptop

by Neeraj Sharma — On October 24, Block’s AI research lab showed a voice model called Dessa. In the demos it laughs mid-sentence, reacts to surprises with…

Medium·Oct 26

Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human

Typically, speech models are paired with a large language model for knowledge retrieval. Block said that Dessa's knowledge stems from the conversational data it has.

TechCrunch AI·Oct 24

Block Unveils AI Technology

Jack Dorsey's Block has introduced Dessa, an innovative AI technology designed to facilitate human-like conversations without relying on text. This ...

exchange4media·Oct 24