Block's New AI Voice Model Dessa: The Hyperrealistic Technology Transforming Social Feeds

Why Jack Dorsey’s new voice AI is taking over social feeds

10/26/2026

Block co-founder Jack Dorsey, who was ex-CEO of erstwhile Twitter (now X), posted a simple release announcement introducing Dessa – a full-duplex voice AI model developed by a small research team...

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Block’s New Hyperrealistic Dessa Voice AI Learned From Human Speech Alone

10/25/2026

Block's new Dessa voice AI learned to converse from speech alone, unlike other llm based voice AI models . Selected demos pair expressive speech with mistakes; the model is not yet publicly available.

THE DECODER

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

10/24/2026

Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, has introduced Dessa, a speech model that processes audio directly instead of converting it to text first. Dessa is designed to recognize emotions,...

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Blocks latest AI model Dessa was trained entirely on human speech — and it shows

10/24/2026

If interacting with Siri has been the extent of your experience "talking" to AI, you're in for a rude awakening. While Apple's voice assistant often fumbles basic commands and can take an...