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🎉 From design partner to default voice provider 🎉 We’re excited to share how we’re supporting Vapi, a leader in conversational voice AI. Vapi chose Cartesia as their default voice over 8 other Text-To-Speech providers for our: 🚀 Industry-leading latency: Under 200ms end-to-end across all languages 🎙 Ultra-realistic voices: Indistinguishable from human speech 💻 Developer-first platform: Record shipping speed and superior customer support One customer in the healthcare sector reported an immediate 4x increase in patient call retention after switching their voice provider to Cartesia. Read more below and try talking to our voice, Hannah, on Vapi's homepage: Vapi.ai 👇

🎉 We're excited to welcome Bohan Li to Cartesia's Technical Staff! 🎉 With 9 years of experience in databases, analytics, and ML infrastructure, Bohan brings a wealth of expertise to our team. His impressive career highlights include: 1)Developing a distributed execution engine for Python-based relational data analytics at Xcalar 2) Optimizing data warehouses for modern hardware at Yellowbrick Data (his work linked below) 3) Working on datasets and evaluation systems for L4 autonomous driving Bohan shared his excitement about joining Cartesia: "I'm drawn to the Mamba architecture because it closely mirrors human learning processes. I'm particularly excited about on-device capabilities and their commercial applications. For instance, my wife works in healthcare, and a HIPAA-compliant translation service that runs locally could be transformative for her field." We look forward to sharing the innovations Bohan will ship with our team!

We're recruiting machine learning research interns for fall 2024, apply below by August 24th. Join us to build and ship cutting-edge multimodal models, and have fun along the way! https://lnkd.in/d2xA-wYF

Exciting news! 🎉 We're thrilled to welcome Kunal Shah to our technical team! 🎉 With nearly 13 years of experience in big data engineering and MLOps infrastructure, Kunal brings a wealth of expertise to Cartesia. His impressive background includes: 1) Developing revenue data ecosystems for YouTube Music and YouTube Premium launches 2) Enhancing training and serving infrastructure at Airbnb 3) Leading data engineering and feature platforms at DoorDash - see his work on Fabricator below 👇 On joining Cartesia, Kunal says: "I'm eager to dive deeper into fundamental AI advancements. Cartesia is at the cutting edge of this pivotal space, and I'm thrilled to be part of the journey."

Huge Sonic release! 🇺🇸 New English model reduces breathiness & artifacts. 🌎 New multilingual model improves pacing, loudness & word error rate by upto 50%. 💨😡😳😁 Voice control API to precisely control speed and emotion. ⏰ Word timestamps on gen audio, use for captioning and interruption handling in voice agents. ♾️ Long generations, no more 500 character limit on the playground and API. 📁 MP3 support for non-streaming generations. 🎆 Playground refresh, check out the video below. In addition, we released our Voice Library expansion and support for continuations last Friday.

We've expanded our voice library to 50 voices, from fun characters 🧙♂️ for your content, to a great selection spanning 🌎 global languages and regional 🇺🇸 American accents for your voice agents. Available now with Sonic with instant 135ms latency 🔥 https://play.cartesia.ai

We've shipped continuations, our most requested API feature. Sonic can now stream in text (e.g. LLM generations), and generate audio smoothly across chunks using the power of Sonic's state. This unlocks long transcript use cases, and real-time conversational voice agents! Check out our cofounder Arjun Desai using Sonic to narrate his PhD thesis (a tome about MRI scans and AI)! Docs can be found at https://lnkd.in/geYtCr6P Found a bug? Have questions? Hit us up on Discord at https://lnkd.in/gFBDW7ZZ

Thanks for the shoutout Sunny Madra Jason Calacanis!

Yesterday, we released 2 new models! 🇺🇸 Sonic English Improved pacing, voice cloning and pronunciation, same 135ms latency 🌍 Sonic Multilingual 6 new languages (German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese) with a new multilingual voice library 🩺 And now HIPAA compliant Try out the new models on https://play.cartesia.ai/

We've overhauled the Cartesia Python client library, v1 is out! - Improved library ergonomics - Stable support for accessing WebSocket and Server-Sent Events endpoints - Access to sonic-multilingual in addition to sonic-english - Explicit access to voice methods Issues? Message us on our Discord https://lnkd.in/gFBDW7ZZ