# Dessa launch recordings: Voice Benchmark Profile

> Block shares live recordings of people talking with Dessa, a full-duplex model trained only on human speech. Block publishes no benchmark scores; the model is waitlist-only and coming soon.

- Scope: Unscripted live conversations recorded by Block, with subtitles added afterwards
- Measurement lanes: Conversation dynamics, Voice experience
- Primary metric: None published (recordings and capability claims only)
- Available evidence: Launch page with 6 featured and 15 additional recordings, October 2026
- Owner: Block
- Source snapshots refreshed: 2026-10-23

## Interpretation limit

Block chose and recorded these conversations, and it reports no quantitative evaluation. Faster-than-real-time inference, local MacBook Pro M4 Max inference, and single GB200 NVL72 training are Block claims that have not been independently checked. Nothing here enters weighted text-model scores.

## Primary sources

- [Owner page](https://block.xyz/dessa)

Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/voice-benchmarks/dessa-launch-recordings