Cartesia
Text-to-speech and transcription fast enough for live conversation, from one API built for voice agents.
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About Cartesia
What it is
Cartesia provides real-time speech generation, speech recognition and a managed voice agent runtime through a single API. The models are built for interactive latency rather than batch rendering, with a large voice and language catalogue.
Why it's different
In a voice agent, latency is the product. A reply that is correct but arrives a second late reads as broken in a way the same words delivered instantly do not, and most speech systems were designed to render audio rather than to hold a conversation. Building for the conversational case is the difference. What that costs is expressive control: for narration or audiobooks, where you can afford to wait, tools tuned for performance produce better readings.
How people use it
Phone and voice agents that must not sound like they are buffering. Live translation and accessibility features. Interactive characters and assistants. Test with real telephone audio rather than a studio microphone, because the codec and the background noise are what actually reach your model.
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