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Introducing the new Bland dashboard
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Introducing the new Bland dashboard

Our models are now smart enough to lead the call, so we rebuilt Bland around them. Here's what's new, and how to migrate your pathways and…

An orange telephone with a laughing mouth faces a listening ear, with three black sound rays between them.
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How our research team developed Bland TTS v3

How NVAlign trains speech models to follow laughter and sigh tags, and what our listening tests revealed.

Audio Realism Benchmark ranking. Humanity first at 1500, Bland Speech v3 second at 1365, then MAI-Voice-2 at 1224, Grok TTS at 1156, GPT Realtime 2 at 1119, Gemini 2.5 Pro TTS at 1109, and Eleven v3 thirteenth at 938.
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Introducing Bland Speech v3: The first Human Speech Engine

A text-to-speech platform trained on real human conversations, for developers building voice AI that sounds just like a person.

James Piazza sitting on his living room couch, smiling and holding up a phone running the text-to-speech app built from his own voice
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The Loudest Guy in the Room

Nine months after a stroke took his speech, James Piazza ordered his own lunch – in his own voice, rebuilt from five seconds of home video.

Series C Unlocked: What's Next for Bland
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Series C Unlocked: What's Next for Bland

Bland has raised an additional $50 million — past $100 million total in under three years. Why we build our own voice models in-house, and…

Bland noise cancellation v2
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The real world is loud. Now your AI agent won't care.

Bland launches Noise Cancellation V2.