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Block, led by Jack Dorsey, unveils 'Dessa', a full-duplex voice model trained solely on voice, saying it feels 'like talking to a person'

Block, led by Jack Dorsey, unveils 'Dessa', a full-duplex voice model trained solely on voice, saying it feels 'like talking to a person'
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Block announced a research preview of 'Dessa', a full-duplex voice model trained exclusively on human conversational voice without using text or pre-trained models.

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  • •It is a full-duplex voice model trained exclusively on human conversational voice without using text or pre-trained models.
  • •It is characterized by its ability to directly hear and express backchannels and emotional intonation.
  • •It was trained on a single NVIDIA rack and can be run locally on a MacBook Pro.
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