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Bland Launches Tofu-1, a Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech Model for Calls

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Bland, the San Francisco voice-AI company, has released Tofu-1 , a full-duplex speech-to-speech model in research preview. The Tofu-1 speech-to-speech model targets calls from moving cars, hospital rooms and weak-signal lines. It listens while it speaks and reasons while it talks. For phone-agent…

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