Sonic: The fastest and most natural text to speech model
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Built for Voice Agents
Seven capabilities that make Sonic the voice layer production agents rely on.
A voice that reads the room.
In practice
The best voice interactions feel effortless — tone adjusts to context, pacing stays consistent, and the speech moves with the natural rhythm of how people actually talk.
Sonic's approach
By default, Sonic interprets the emotional subtext in the transcript and calibrates delivery automatically. Non-verbal expressions like laughter can be inserted directly into the transcript.
I can't believe we actually made it. [laughter] Finally!
Sonic features built for your voice
Clone your voice, localize it into 42 languages, and fine-tune every word.
Voice cloning
Clone any voice instantly with 10 seconds of audio. High speaker similarity means the brand voice you love stays true, even at scale.
Localization
Localize any audio clip with native-speaker quality. Emotion, tone, and speaker identity carry through — nothing gets lost in translation.
- Skylar - American English
- Skylar - Canadian French
- Skylar - Castilian Spanish
Custom Pronunciation Dictionaries
Specify custom pronunciations for proper nouns, domain terms, and anything else that needs to sound exactly right.
- WordPronunciation
- charcuterieshar-koo-terie
- subpoena<<s|ə|ˈ|p|i|n|ə>>
- epinephrine<<ˌ|ɛ|p|ɪ|ˈ|n|ɛ|f|ɹ|ɪ|n>>
One voice model for your entire business.
See how enterprise teams use Sonic across every use case — and hear it for yourself.

Calls warm leads the day a campaign fires, personalizes the opener, and books meetings in the CRM.





Calls warm leads the day a campaign fires, personalizes the opener, and books meetings in the CRM.
Calls signups within seconds, qualifies them, and books a meeting before the prospect checks their phone.
Authenticates callers, pulls live account data, and resolves billing questions, order status, and account issues without hold times or transfers.
Spins up a realistic prospect persona that reps can practice live sales calls against, handling objections, pushback, and curveballs on demand.
Calls applicants instantly, screens them, and pushes a qualification summary to the ATS before the call ends.
Calls customers at key lifecycle moments — onboarding check-ins, renewal reminders, post-support follow-ups.







Fluent and native, worldwide
Reach international markets with Sonic — 40+ languages and a wide range of accents, all with native-speaker quality voices.
Enterprise-grade security. From Cloud to Local.
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HIPAA compliant
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SOC 2 Type 2
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GDPR
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PCI
Trusted by leading enterprises. Speaking from experience.
Discover success storiesElise AI
We didn't switch to Sonic 3.5 because it was incrementally better, we switched because nothing else came close… we've seen a 2.9% lift in our conversion and a 12.2% increase in customer engagement.
ServiceNow
Cartesia's state-space models bring enterprise-grade speed and quality to our AI Voice Agents… making it possible for businesses to deploy secure, scalable voice agents that can understand, act, and adapt in real time.
Sierra
Cartesia Sonic 3.5 has become one of the top-performing models for us by combining low latency with natural pacing… helping us deliver strong voice quality across a growing set of languages where other models often fall short.
Callers
Sonic 3.5 has been a meaningful upgrade for Callers… latency and naturalness directly impact conversational flow and user success, and the new model noticeably improves both. We've seen more human interactions — especially in high-volume customer conversations where every millisecond and every turn matters.
Take2 AI
We moved from an incumbent TTS provider to Cartesia because of the support experience. After repeated roadblocks with our previous provider, the difference with Cartesia has been transformative — responsive, technical, and genuinely invested in our success.
Cresta
Sonic 3.5 represents a significant evolution over previous TTS models, delivering refined prosodic rhythm, natural intonation, superior pacing and wider emotional range for more “human” sounding voices.
Bolna
Indian voice agents live or die on whether order IDs, alphanumerics, and multilingual code-switching come out right on a phone line. Sonic 3.5 handles alphanumerics natively… and lands first audio at 100ms p90.
Goodcall
Sonic is the only product in existence with model latency of less than 100 ms, outperforming its next best alternative by a factor of four. This level of performance represents a quantum leap forward.
Quora
Sonic powers audio on Poe across 100+ voices and 14 languages, supporting Quora's millions of users with SOC 2 compliance and unlimited concurrency for enterprise customers.
Fundamento
We run 20M+ outbound calls per month on Cartesia, with peak concurrency of 5,000 calls in a single minute, and 100ms time-to-first-byte — 2x faster than every other voice provider we tested.
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