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

Bland, the San Francisco voice-AI company, has released Tofu-1, a full-duplex speech-to-speech model in research preview that targets calls from moving cars, hospital rooms and weak-signal lines, listening while it speaks and reasoning while it talks. Bland lists speaker tracking, noise separation and paralinguistics as its audio skills, and says callers can interrupt or correct it mid-sentence while it keeps the conversation moving and reports results only when work is done. Access is a closed enterprise research preview for banking, healthcare, insurance and government, with Bland citing January availability and no published size, latency, pricing or benchmarks.