Release announced
Released on Apr 2026
Cartesia announced this model on 2026-04-01.
- Hosting route
- First-party API
- Affected scope
- Not stated in the notice
- Announced
- Apr 2026
- First seen by ModelClock
- Oct 3, 2026
What the provider published
docs.cartesia.ai ↗Sonic 3.5 is now available on
sonic-3-latest. We'd love for you to try it and tell us what you think.Why you should try it
- More natural speech, pacing, and emotional expression, especially noticeable on expressive, conversational, and support-style transcripts.
- Cleaner audio quality across all languages and voices.
- Better alphanumeric read-out — confirmation codes, order numbers, phone numbers, IDs, and emails sound meaningfully more natural, in all supported languages.
- Step-change multilingual performance, particularly Hebrew, Japanese, Spanish, Hindi, German, Korean, and French.
- English heteronyms — tricky English heteronyms like "read," "bass," and "bow" now pronounce correctly in context.
How to try it
- Point your API call or Playground request to the model ID
sonic-3-latest.
Read from the provider's text; the quote is the provider's exact lines.