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Jack Dorsey's Block unveils Dessa, a human-like speech AI

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Block, a company founded by Jack Dorsey, has introduced Dessa, a novel speech-to-speech AI model. Dessa is designed to converse naturally, incorporating elements like emotion, pauses, and laughter directly into its speech output. The model was trained using only human speech and can operate on standard consumer hardware, suggesting potential applications in areas such as social audio and voice-over work. AI

IMPACT This model could significantly alter how we interact with voice-based AI, potentially improving social audio platforms and voice-over applications.

RANK_REASON The item describes the release of a new AI model by a company, which falls under the 'tool' category as it's a specific product release rather than a frontier model from a major AI lab.

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Jack Dorsey's Block unveils Dessa, a human-like speech AI

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Jack Dorsey's Block has unveiled Dessa, a full-duplex speech-to-speech model that listens and talks at once, with emotion, pauses and laughter produced by the v

    Jack Dorsey's Block has unveiled Dessa, a full-duplex speech-to-speech model that listens and talks at once, with emotion, pauses and laughter produced by the voice itself rather than bolted on as tags. Trained only on human speech on a single Nvidia GPU, it runs locally on consu…

    LINKS techcrunch.com/…/blocks-new-voice-model-s…

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