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Sonic Turbo

Cartesia low-latency text-to-speech model for 9 languages; stops working after 2026-10-20, migrate to Sonic 3.6.

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Specs

Context
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Max output
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Input price
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Output price
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Released
2025-03-07

Context

Not published

Pricing

Not published

Modalities

Input
Text
Output
Audio

API

API types
audio

Reasoning

Not published

Info

Status
Deprecated
Released
2025-03-07
Knowledge cutoff
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Features

Not published
Source · official docsVerified 2026-10-11

How to call

1 provider

cartesiamodel = sonic-turbo

audio
POSThttps://api.cartesia.ai/tts/bytes

JSON

Standard format
sonic-turbo.json
{
  "id": "sonic-turbo",
  "object": "model",
  "created": 1741305600,
  "owned_by": "cartesia",
  "name": "Sonic Turbo",
  "api": {
    "types": [
      "audio"
    ]
  },
  "limits": {
    "context": null,
    "input": null,
    "output": null
  },
  "modalities": {
    "input": [
      "text"
    ],
    "output": [
      "audio"
    ]
  },
  "reasoning": {
    "supported": null,
    "efforts": []
  },
  "pricing": null,
  "features": [],
  "info": {
    "status": "deprecated",
    "release_date": "2025-03-07",
    "knowledge_cutoff": null,
    "description": "Cartesia low-latency text-to-speech model for 9 languages; stops working after 2026-10-20, migrate to Sonic 3.6.",
    "docs": "https://docs.cartesia.ai/build-with-cartesia/tts-models/older-models",
    "verified_at": "2026-10-11"
  }
}

Official sources

2