Block's new AI voice model produces uncanny, human-like voices

Gizmodo and other outlets report on voices generated by Block's new AI model, described as uncanny and human-ish. One outlet says it is a voice AI trained only on speech, with no text tokens.

Timeline

1. 24 Oct, 14:10 UTCFirst appeared on Google Trends
2. 24 Oct, 14:10 UTCPicked up on News
3. 24 Oct, 14:10 UTCGizmodo covers Block's AI voices

Top sources

• dessa aiGoogle Trends
• Jack Dorsey’s Block Builds a Voice AI Trained Only on SpeechFourWeekMBA
• Dessa Full-Duplex Speech Model: 0 Text Tokens [2026]shattered.io
• Jack Dorsey's new voice AI is impressing users and alarming fraud watchersCoinDesk