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We're excited to welcome Prashant Sridhar to our technical staff! ?? Prashant was recently leading the speech modeling team at ASAPP, a company working to improve the contact center industry using AI. He worked on building state of the art speech-to-text models and voice agents capable of delivering a streamlined customer service experience. Prior to ASAPP, he spent 4 years at Google. "I'm excited to join Cartesia to push the boundaries of voice agents. There's a lot to be excited about in voice ai today, from speech-to-speech models to emotion control. I believe these technologies will be as transformative as the first smart phones and dramatically change how humans interact with the world," he said of joining Cartesia. Prashant brings years of speech expertise to our team, and we can't wait to see what he ships! ?? ??

We’re excited to welcome Chao Wang to our technical staff! ?? Chao joins us from Character.AI where he worked on the core AI chat experience, cloud infrastructure, and multimodal data pipelines. Prior to Character he spent 8 years at Google where he launched developer APIs and local search products. On joining Cartesia, he said, “I was extremely impressed by Cartesia’s high quality TTS product powered by SSMs. As a product engineer at Character, I worked with several conversational AI and multimodal products and believe Cartesia’s solution is the most revolutionary one yet.” Welcome Chao, we're thankful to have you onboard! ?? ??

We had a fantastic time hosting our Conversational AI Leaders Dinner for SF Tech Week last night. It’s always energizing to spend time with our community and hear how they’re pushing the boundaries of voice agents across such a wide range of industries. Thanks to this group for sharing their insights - go check out what they’re building! Tim Shi, CTO of Cresta - enterprise-grade AI for contact centers David Zhao, CTO of LiveKit - open source infrastructure for real time AI Sophia Xing, Former Head of Product Inworld AI - AI engine for gaming Quinn Favret, COO of Tavus - apis for real-time digital twins Jeffery L., Co-CEO of Assort Health - AI call centers for healthcare Peggy Wang, CTO of ego (YC W24)- AI-native 3D simulation engines Samir Sen, AI Engineer at Crescendo - AI powered customer service Derek Pankaew, CEO and Founder at Listening - text to audio for academic papers

Bob S. prior led Google’s Text-to-Speech product and co-founded a business phone assistant within Google’s product incubator, Area 120.? Today, Bob’s new company, Goodcall, announced that they have switched 100% of their text-to-speech generations of 2,217 unique voice agents from Eleven Labs to Cartesia. Here's why they chose Cartesia: ?? Industry-leading Latency: 90 ms average time-to-first-audio including model and network latency. 3X faster than comparables. ?? Best-In-Class Conversational Quality: Bob was able to silently switch his voice provider to Sonic with 0 customer complaints and consistently hit 97% interaction rate, with several customers asking how he got the voices to be so human-like ??Voice Design Capabilities: Cartesia gives Bob the ability to clone voices and blend them in a couple of clicks Read the full story and try Goodcall's Sonic-powered agents here ?? https://lnkd.in/gQsRQbJB https://lnkd.in/guKA-hDE

Introducing our next 8 languages on Sonic-Multilingual ????? The same low-latency, ultra-realistic voice generation available on 14 additional languages?? ???? German | ???? Portuguese | ???? Chinese | ???? Japanese | ???? French | ???? Spanish | ???? Hindi | ???? Italian | ???? Korean | ???? Dutch | ???? Polish | ???? Russian | ???? Swedish | ???? Turkish How it works: 1. Visit our playground: play.cartesia.ai? 2. Select the "sonic-multilingual" model.? 3. Choose your preferred language. 4. Type your transcript.? 5. Pick a voice from our list (use voices from the same language for best results).? 6. Hit the "Speak" button and enjoy!? 7. Download your audio if you'd like. ?? Update: https://lnkd.in/gNBWyDhJ

?? ?? We’re excited to welcome Rohan T. to Cartesia’s technical staff. Rohan graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science. He prior worked as a software engineer at Jane Street, IMC Trading, and Kintsugi. “I share Cartesia’s excitement about a future with ubiquitous intelligence that is natural to interact with, and I’m interested in approaching this goal from diverse architectural paradigms such as SSMs. I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to work with an incredible team on solving fascinating technical challenges towards making this vision a reality," he said. Rohan's already made a ton of impact in his first week, and we can't wait to share more about what he builds with us!

Trying to build conversational voice experiences, but don't know where to start? Check out this Vercel template for Swift, a digital assistant. It integrates Groq, Cartesia Sonic, and an in-browser VAD for the fastest speech-to-speech latency. ??♂? ?? Try it here: https://lnkd.in/gUk5UcXr Template here: https://lnkd.in/g--eXxq7

Introducing our new localization feature! ????? Choose any voice and localize it to any language or regional accent. Watch as our popular "Helpful Woman" voice shifts from American to British English, then to Chinese and Portuguese. Try it now in our playground or API ?? Playground: play.cartesia.ai Docs: https://lnkd.in/gfbvHyaM

??Daily launches Daily Bots with Cartesia as Primary Voice Provider! ???? Daily launched Daily Bots last month, attracting hundreds of developers instantly. We're honored to be the default provider for both Daily Bots and Pipecat, one of the fastest-growing open-source frameworks for voice AI. Since 2016, Daily has been pioneering real-time multimodal AI. It's a privilege to collaborate with Kwindla Hultman Kramer and the exceptional Daily team. Why Daily Bots with Cartesia is a Game-Changer: ?? Ultra-low latency: voice-to-voice responses as fast as 500ms ?? Interruption support: Natural conversation flow, just like human dialogue ?? Clean abstractions: Simplified development for faster deployment ?? Rich example library: A treasure trove of resources for developers Read the full story here ??

Users come to us all the time with questions around how to evaluate the best voice generation APIs. To help, we put together a systematic comparison on the important features to look at when comparing Cartesia Sonic to ElevenLabs. Our study also features third party comparisons published by Labelbox and Artificial Analysis. Read about our full methodology ??