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Cartesia Sonic 3.6

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Tied for best of 26 voices at reading medical terms right

Medical terms: 100%

Cartesia Sonic 3.6: tied for best of 26 voices at reading medical terms right. Its weakest is read from context, 25th of 26.

Last updated Methodology by Dileep Chagam

Cartesia Sonic 3.6 at a glance

Where it ranks among all 26 voices, in plain words.

Good at
  • Reads medical terms rightTied best of 26
Not so good at
  • Misreads read from context25th of 26
  • Misreads numbers and shorthandTied 22nd of 26
  • Misreads hard parts23rd of 26
  • Keeps talking after a stop5th of 6
  • Misreads codes and addressesTied 20th of 26

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Cartesia Sonic 3.6

Cartesia Sonic 3.6 head to head

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MeasureCartesia Sonic 3.6MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash
  1. Non-streaming286 ms289 ms
  2. Streaming270 msCan't stream
  3. Stopping764 msNo stop message
  4. Accuracy74.9%78.3%
  5. Naturalness4.414.32
  6. Price / 1M$39.20$15.00
  7. Measures won2 of 62 of 6
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Cartesia Sonic 3.6 FAQ

  • Cartesia Sonic 3.6 starts in 286 ms on a typical sentence (median) and 339 ms on the slowest 1 in 10 (p90), 11th of 26 voices.

  • Yes. With streamed text, Cartesia Sonic 3.6 starts 270 ms after the last word arrives.

  • Yes. After the stop it still sends 764 ms of audio (median), which the agent throws away.

  • Cartesia Sonic 3.6 read 74.9% of the hard parts right, as speech-to-text heard it. Its weakest kind is read from context, at 58.3%. This is an estimate, not a listening test.

  • Cartesia Sonic 3.6 lists at $39.20 per million characters.