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I use a wooden bar, cut from a mop or similar, to lever spokes towards and beyond their final position, twice, once after lacing, to ensure spokes are orientated correctly, and then again at final tension (though I repeat this until the wheel stays true). You're looking to increase the tension a fair amount (to stress relieve), so it's a lot of force squeezing spokes and hard on the knuckles.
It's actually two processes at once, stress relieving (to give spoke durability) and removing the spoke wound up (to give a true wheel).
Jon.
What are people’s process for completely stress relieving their wheels? currently squeezing parallel pairs of spokes after every round of tensioning -but feels like I’m doing something wrong as it doesn’t seem that effective... Maybe I’m not squeezing hard enough?