Bland Speech v3
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- Bland AI
- C · CEO & Politics
- Isaiah Granet — No public partisan activity documented
- D · Date
- 2026
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Cloud (closed API)
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- USA
- K · Key Staffers
- Sobhan Nejad (Co-founder)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- Voice / TTS
- N · Safety Issues
- 10-second instant voice cloning raises impersonation-risk considerations (closed API mitigates distribution).
- O · Open Source
- Proprietary
- P · Pricing
- Pay as you go: $0.04 per 1,000 characters (limited-time launch rate), same in the studio and the API; first 50,000 characters free; voice cloning unlocks after loading $5 of credit
- Q · AIDb Rating
- 8/10 · AIDb v2.0 (curated): Capability 9/10 · Currency 10/10 · Access 2/10 · Significance 6/10 → 7.70
- R · What Makes It Special
- Tops Design Arena's blind pairwise Audio Realism benchmark at 1365 Elo — above ElevenLabs, Microsoft MAI-Voice-2 and Grok TTS, second only to real human recordings (~1500). Trained on 100M+ real phone conversations; keeps the breaths, hesitations and fillers TTS usually sands off.
- S · Stock / Status
- Private
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- Yes
- W · Weights
- API only
- X · X Handle
- @usebland
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Proprietary Voice / TTS from Bland AI, released 2026.
Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-08-09 · Primary source ↗
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“Bland Speech v3.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-08-09. https://theaidatabase.com/m/bland-speech-v3.html