# Block's new voice model sounds eerily human

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> **Original Source**: [TechCrunch AI](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/24/blocks-new-voice-model-sounds-eerily-human/)
> **Author**: Ivan Mehta (undefined)
> **Published Date**: Saturday, October 24, 2026
> **Category**: INDUSTRY
> **Tags**: AI, TechCrunch AI, industry

## Executive Summary
Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max



## Full Coverage
Jack Dorsey's Block released a new voice model out of the company's research lab that runs locally and sounds strangely human with its expressions like laughs, pauses, and cries. The company said the model, called Dessa, is trained fully on human speech and a single NVIDIA GPU rack

Dessa is a full-duplex model, which means it can talk and listen at the same time, just like the GPT-Live model OpenAI released earlier this year . Typically, speech models are paired with a large language model for knowledge retrieval. Block said that Dessa's knowledge stems from the conversational data it has

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