What a legit team @blocks (@jack) put behind Dessa.
@RagavanThurair @RayhaneMama @carajzp @dvirzg.
• RealTalk (2019): the Joe Rogan voice clone
• Efficient-VDVAE
• Tacotron-2, 2.3K★
Now: full-duplex speech-to-speech trained only on raw speech.
@RagavanThurair @RayhaneMama @carajzp @dvirzg.
• RealTalk (2019): the Joe Rogan voice clone
• Efficient-VDVAE
• Tacotron-2, 2.3K★
Now: full-duplex speech-to-speech trained only on raw speech.
Oct 23, 2026 · 9:37 PM UTC
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@bill_2023_evans @blocks @jack @RagavanThurair @RayhaneMama @carajzp @dvirzg Good catch, he absolutely is. Hashiam Kadhim co-built RealTalk with Rayhane Mama and Joseph Palermo back in 2019, and he's on the Dessa research team now. Couldn't find his handle, but credit where it's due.
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@arpagon @blocks @jack @RagavanThurair @RayhaneMama @carajzp @dvirzg 🇨🇦 AI talent is second to none.
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@arpagon @blocks @jack @RagavanThurair @RayhaneMama @carajzp @dvirzg can it act as an MCP-connected agent and do you plan on releasing open weights or nahh?
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