{"slug": "blocks-dessa-the-speech-ai-that-never-touched-text", "title": "Block’s Dessa: The Speech AI That Never Touched Text", "summary": "Block has introduced Dessa, a full-duplex speech model trained solely on human audio with no text data and no pretrained weights, according to byteiota. The model is positioned for developers building voice applications.", "body_md": "Block's Dessa is a full-duplex speech model trained solely on human audio — no text, no pretrained weights. Here's what it means for developers building voice applications.\n\nThe post \nBlock’s Dessa: The Speech AI That Never Touched Text\n appeared first on \nbyteiota\n.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/blocks-dessa-the-speech-ai-that-never-touched-text", "canonical_source": "https://byteiota.com/dessa-block-speech-model/", "published_at": "2026-10-24 09:15:53+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-24 10:13:23.455332+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning", "ai-products", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Block", "Dessa", "byteiota"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/blocks-dessa-the-speech-ai-that-never-touched-text", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/blocks-dessa-the-speech-ai-that-never-touched-text.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/blocks-dessa-the-speech-ai-that-never-touched-text.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/blocks-dessa-the-speech-ai-that-never-touched-text.jsonld"}}