Calvin Mitchell

[Calvin Mitchell @CalvinM99]

@psandovalsegura Tuff

[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, developers, and creators can now create any audio they can imagine.

To showcase this, we used 5 seconds of old footage to help James, a 49 year old father who recently suffered a stroke, get his voice back.

Try it for free at https://t.co/lr96zcKLbq

Full length documentary below🧵

[Design Arena @DesignArena]

BREAKING: Bland Speech v3 by @usebland debuts as the most human-sounding TTS model on our newest evaluation: Audio Realism Bench.

Traditional speech benchmarks increasingly struggle to separate frontier systems that all sound clean, fluent, and intelligible.

Audio Realism Bench instead asks a harder question: when two voices read the same transcript, which one sounds more like a real person?

Vetted native speakers evaluate recordings blindly across phone agents, conversational assistants, and spoken explainers, judging the subtle qualities that define human-like speech.

We also place real human recordings directly into the evaluation pool, testing whether evaluators can distinguish TTS models from actual human speech.

Bland Speech v3 takes the top spot in our initial rankings, followed by MAI-Voice-2 by @MicrosoftAI and Grok TTS by @SpaceXAI, all demonstrating important steps toward voice systems capable of sustaining genuinely human-feeling interactions.

Congratulations to the @usebland team!

[Bland @usebland]

Yesterday, we announced that we closed our Series C. Hear from our CEO, Isaiah Granet, about what this means for the team:

[Calvin Mitchell @CalvinM99]

@SportsEug @isaac_streeter @AthlonSports 📈

[Jackson Naugle @SportsEug]

The last time Oregon was ranked No. 1 in the AP poll (Nov. 11, 2012):

One More Night by Maroon 5 was No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

President Barack Obama had just secured his second term.

Wreck-It Ralph was dominating the box office.

@DucksDigest @Athlon_Bliss #GoDucks

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

My statement on the death of George Floyd:

[espnW @espnW]

More history being made 👏

[Wyatt Anderlie @W_Y_12_T_T]

I got drunk tonight and bought tickets for me and grandma to see bob Dylan this summer #hopeshemakesit

[Calvin Mitchell @CalvinM99]

@q_schmechel @ me next time bro

[Calvin Mitchell @CalvinM99]

@j_noggz Who you calling old

[DuckSports @rg_ducksports]

Former Ducks star Kenya Wilkins ready to give back to the Oregon community that saved him https://t.co/J02AQWFYVn

[holly @quaholity]

& here we are 26 years later

[Mike Olson @kuahoops]

Opening day at the Cat House! KUA out shoots Bradford Christian 102-76. Enoch Cheeks paces scoring with an efficient 34 points, Jay Elmore adds 27 with five 3’s and Will Engelhardt chips in 22. Great start guys!

[Jackson Naugle @j_noggz]

New kids🦆

[Karl-Anthony Towns @KarlTowns]

So let me get this straight: Flint, MI has dirty water still, but you worried about an interview about a man doing good for education and generations of kids in his hometown? Shut your damn mouth! Stop using them twitter fingers and get stuff done for our country with that pen.

[Sean Don @BigSean]

It’s disappointing and appalling @NFL & @EA took @Kaepernick7’s name out of my verse on Big Bank for Madden 19, like it was a curse word. When he's not a curse, he's a gift! Nobody from my team approved any of this.

[zankins @_zankins]

Excited to announce my commitment to Pacific University!! Big thanks to my family and all my coaches for helping me achieve my dream of playing college basketball! #BoxerNation