Cartesia provides text-to-speech (Sonic), speech-to-text (Ink) and voice agent APIs for developers, with voice cloning on paid plans. Free plan has 20K credits a month; Pro is $5 a month.
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Cartesia provides text-to-speech (Sonic), speech-to-text (Ink) and voice agent APIs for developers, with voice cloning on paid plans. Free plan has 20K credits a month; Pro is $5 a month.
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