Built for voice agents that can't wait 600ms

Cartesia: Sonic 3.6

cartesia/sonic-3-6
active tts 1 provider
Playground

Cartesia's most lifelike text-to-speech model (recommended), #1 on the Artificial Analysis Speech Arena leaderboards, with sub-90ms latency and native support for 44 languages.

AuthorCartesia
Languages44 languages
VoicesLoading...
Response formatsSynchronous: MP3 · WAV · PCM · µ-law · A-law
Streaming: PCM · µ-law · A-law
Variant models2 IDs
Statusactive

Variant Models

These are native model IDs accepted by the author/provider for the same canonical model family.

Sonic 3.6 Default
sonic-3.6
Sonic 3.6 (pinned snapshot) Variant
sonic-3.6-2026-08-27

Providers

Different providers can host the same model. Choose one provider when you need a fixed backend, or let routing select among them.

ProviderSlugPer 1k charactersLatencyiFor TTS, latency is measured as time to first byte of audio. For STT, latency is measured as time to first token.ModesUptime
Cartesia 7 params
cartesia
$0.03738
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Synchronous · Streaming

Supported languages

44 languages
English en
French fr
German de
Spanish es
Portuguese pt
Chinese zh
Japanese ja
Hindi hi
Italian it
Korean ko
Dutch nl
Polish pl
Russian ru
Swedish sv
Turkish tr
Tagalog tl
Bulgarian bg
Romanian ro
Arabic ar
Czech cs
Greek el
Finnish fi
Croatian hr
Malay ms
Slovak sk
Danish da
Tamil ta
Ukrainian uk
Hungarian hu
Norwegian no
Vietnamese vi
Bengali bn
Thai th
Hebrew he
Georgian ka
Indonesian id
Telugu te
Gujarati gu
Kannada kn
Malayalam ml
Marathi mr
Punjabi pa
Odia or
Urdu ur

Voices

Features

Text to speech

Generates spoken audio from text input.

text_to_speech
Streaming

Low-latency streaming TTS over WebSocket; raw PCM output (pcm_f32le/pcm_s16le/pcm_mulaw/pcm_alaw).

streaming
Synchronous

Synthesizes speech from fully-submitted text in a single synchronous request.

synchronous
Multilingual

Supports 44 languages (adds Odia and Urdu over Sonic 3.5).

multilingual
Voice cloning

Supports instant and professional voice clones.

voice_cloning
Speed & emotion control

Speed (0.6-1.5, default 1.0), volume (0.5-2.0, default 1.0) and emotion control (neutral/calm/angry/content/sad/scared; emotion guidance is English-only).

speed_emotion_control

Code

Client
Mode
Language

ElevenLabs SDK streaming TTS

Routes the ElevenLabs SDK through allmodels and streams the audio response.

import { ElevenLabsClient } from "elevenlabs";

const client = new ElevenLabsClient({
  apiKey: process.env.ALLMODELS_API_KEY,
  baseUrl: "https://api.allmodels.io/el"
});

const stream = await client.textToSpeech.stream("voice_id", {
  text: "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.",
  modelId: "cartesia/sonic-3-6",
  outputFormat: "mp3_44100_128"
}, {
  queryParams: {
    provider: {
      "only": [
        "cartesia"
      ]
    }
  }
});

const reader = stream.getReader();
for (;;) {
  const { done, value } = await reader.read();
  if (done) break;
  // Write value to your response, file, or audio playback pipeline.
}