Block unveils Dessa, a local voice model capturing laughs, pauses and cries, trained on one NVIDIA GPU rack
technextpreneur · x · 2026-10-27
Block, Jack Dorsey's company, has unveiled Dessa, a voice model that runs fully locally and reproduces laughs, pauses, and cries.
According to the post, the model was trained entirely on human speech using just a single NVIDIA GPU rack, emphasizing local deployment and low training cost.
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