Max Gibbons

[Max Gibbons @maxgibb]

@nihilists4jesus Same laws should pass for these mega fast ebikes.

[Max Gibbons @maxgibb]

@nihilists4jesus Same thing with 50cc mopeds in the 70s/80s. They were a legal gray area and you could ride them without a license and underage. Not so much anymore!

[Max Gibbons @maxgibb]

It might not look like it, but this was one of my bigger productions.

[Bland @usebland]

This week we launched Bland Speech v3: the world's most realistic TTS model, outranking ElevenLabs, Cartesia, OpenAI, and xAI.

Today, our research team sat down to discuss how we built the model, the unique approach we took, and the impact it'll have.

[Max Gibbons @maxgibb]

This was a rad little late-night work project.

[Bland @usebland]

It's official – Bland Speech v3 is the world's most realistic voice model according to @designarena

Hear what Matthew and Karen have to say on the topic 👇

Try it yourself for free at https://t.co/E8Hbzk2gnp

[Max Gibbons @maxgibb]

I only know four though.

[Max Gibbons @maxgibb]

Pedro is possibly the nicest ML researcher I've ever met.

[Bland @usebland]

Bland researcher Pedro Sandoval spent his PhD figuring out how to break AI models.

Today, he helps build the world's first Human Speech Engine – the only text-to-speech model trained entirely on real conversations.

Take a listen to what he has to say about how Bland's research team built a model that outperforms every other frontier lab on realism benchmarks.

[Max Gibbons @maxgibb]

@usebland What are some other uses for Bland's voice model?

[Max Gibbons @maxgibb]

@danc_danc @LinusEkenstam I've found that it's a little voice-dependent. Some of them handle Slavic languages or Spanish better than others, for example.

[Max Gibbons @maxgibb]

@benyuls @heyfredds Like anything, the cleaner, the better. The audio we got from James's videos was pretty rough to begin with, but the results speak for themselves.

(source: I work at Bland)

[Max Gibbons @maxgibb]

Okay, well, I produced this video.

[Max Gibbons @maxgibb]

I made this last week!

[Bland @usebland]

@DesignArena Watch the full documentary:

[Max Gibbons @maxgibb]

@eldritch_goof Or toads. Also toads are dope.

[Max Gibbons @maxgibb]

@eldritch_goof I bet you have skinks

[Max Gibbons @maxgibb]

@mister_profe I thought I’d have everybody beat with my south central Chile location. Ushuaia! ☹️

[Max Gibbons @maxgibb]

@eldritch_goof (which is why we only make them like twice a year, haha)

[Max Gibbons @maxgibb]

@eldritch_goof My least favorite part is all the rolling out of the dough — I make my wife do it!

[Max Gibbons @maxgibb]

N: Petrozavodsk, Russia
E: Taoyuan City, Taiwan
W: Kaua‘i
S: Lebu Oriente, Chile

[ColoBrando @brandosm]

N: Stykkishólmur, Iceland
E: Johannesburg
W: Maui
S: Cape of Good Hope

All in the last three-ish years!!

[Max Gibbons @maxgibb]

@mister_profe I haven’t had a single free night since it came out 🥲. I don’t even need to see it on IMAX.