Block's Dessa Is Here: Voice AI Trained Only on Human Speech

Description and use

<p>Every voice assistant you have ever used cheats a little. You speak, it converts your speech into text, figures out a text reply, and reads that reply aloud. The conversation you hear is a text conversation wearing a voice costume — and the costume drops everything that makes human speech human: the tremble in a voice, the laugh that escapes mid-sentence, the pause that means "I'm not sure."</p> <p>On <strong>October 23, 2026</strong>, Jack Dorsey's company Block unveiled <strong>Dessa</strong>, a voice AI built on a radically different bet: that a model can learn to hold a realistic conver

Problem

<p>Every voice assistant you have ever used cheats a little. You speak, it converts your speech into text, figures out a text reply, and reads that reply aloud. The conversation you hear is a text conversation wearing a voice costume — and the costume drops everything that makes human speech human: the tremble in a voice, the laugh that escapes mid-sentence, the pause that means "I'm not sure."</p> <p>On <strong>October 23, 2026</strong>, Jack Dorsey's company Block unveiled <strong>Dessa</strong>, a voice AI built on a radically different bet: that a model can learn to hold a realistic conver

Outcome

<p>Every voice assistant you have ever used cheats a little. You speak, it converts your speech into text, figures out a text reply, and reads that reply aloud. The conversation you hear is a text conversation wearing a voice costume — and the costume drops everything that makes human speech human: the tremble in a voice, the laugh that escapes mid-sentence, the pause that means "I'm not sure."</p> <p>On <strong>October 23, 2026</strong>, Jack Dorsey's company Block unveiled <strong>Dessa</strong>, a voice AI built on a radically different bet: that a model can learn to hold a realistic conver

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Block's Dessa Is Here: Voice AI Trained Only on Human Speech

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