@LinusEkenstam: This is life-changing tech. We need less hype, and more stuff like this. Imagine how many people this can help
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Bland launches Speech v3, claiming it's the world's first Human Speech Engine and top model in Design Arena's Audio Realism benchmark, surpassing ElevenLabs, Grok, Cartesia, and OpenAI.
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This is life-changing tech. We need less hype, and more stuff like this. Imagine how many people this can help 🤯
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Bland (@usebland): Today, we’re launching Bland Speech v3 - The world’s first Human Speech Engine.
In @designarena’s Audio Realism benchmark, Speech v3 is the top model, outranking Elevenlabs, Grok, Cartesia, and OpenAI.
Trained on over 100 million real, human conversations: businesses,
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