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Block Built a Voice Model That Cries, Laughs, and Runs on a Laptop

Jack Dorsey's Block unveiled Dessa, an on-device speech-to-speech model trained on raw human audio that ditches text tokens, cuts cloud costs, and sounds uncomfortably real.

Tobias Reinholt · 8d ago · 5 min read

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Block Built a Voice Model That Cries, Laughs, and Runs on a Laptop

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