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Cartesia

Real-time voice AI lab behind Sonic TTS and Ink speech-to-text

OrganizationMedia & Voice Labs

About

Cartesia is a voice AI company founded by Stanford AI Lab researchers who worked on state space models (SSMs) and Mamba. It trains its own speech models, Sonic for text-to-speech and Ink for streaming speech-to-text, and sells them through an API alongside a managed voice-agent platform, with cloud, on-premise and on-device deployment.