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Cartesia Ink-2 tops Artificial Analysis's new STT leaderboard
Cartesia released Ink-2, which debuted as the most accurate streaming speech-to-text model with the fastest turnaround on Artificial Analysis's new STT leaderboard. It landed just after recording as part of a double post-show voice-AI drop alongside ElevenLabs Dubbing v2.
Cartesia Sonic 3: real-time TTS with emotion and laughter, plus $100M raise
Cartesia launched Sonic 3, a real-time text-to-speech model that adds expressive emotion and natural laughter, announced alongside a $100M funding round. Co-founder Arjun Desai joined the show to break down the voice stack and why state-space-model approaches enable this latency and expressiveness.
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