Speech Model on LexxWire — US Tech & AI News Dailyhttps://blog.lexx.in/tags/speech-model/Recent content in Speech Model on LexxWire — US Tech & AI News DailyHugoen-usSun, 25 Oct 2026 17:59:32 -0400Block's Dessa: The Voice AI That Learned to Talk From Speech Alonehttps://blog.lexx.in/webstories/block-dessa-voice-ai-speech-only-webstory/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 17:59:32 -0400https://blog.lexx.in/webstories/block-dessa-voice-ai-speech-only-webstory/Block's research lab unveiled Dessa, a full-duplex voice AI it says was trained only on human speech — it listens while it talks, hears emotion and laughter, and runs locally on a laptop.Block's Dessa Voice AI Learned to Talk From Speech Alone — and It Sounds Humanhttps://blog.lexx.in/news/block-dessa-voice-ai-human-speech-oct-2026/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 15:58:00 -0400https://blog.lexx.in/news/block-dessa-voice-ai-human-speech-oct-2026/Block's Dessa voice AI learned to talk from human speech alone — no text, no pretrained models. It runs on a MacBook and sounds unsettlingly human.