Block releases Dessa, a full‑duplex speech‑to‑speech model

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; Block has not published size, benchmarks or weights.

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Note Block’s release of Dessa; anticipate user demand for local speech‑to‑speech features and plan evaluation.

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