We made the first AI model you can have a realistic conversation with that was trained entirely on speech!
Dessa is a full-duplex speech-to-speech model that you can run on consumer GPUs.
This is a GPT3 moment for speech.
Ragavan Thurairatnam
@RagavanThurair
Read the blog post and hear more samples here
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Dessa - the Conversation Model trained only on speech
You learned to talk by listening. So did Dessa. A research preview of a full-duplex speech model.
4:41 PM UTC · Oct 23, 2026 · 153.8K Views
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