Cartesia Sonic 3 text-to-speech model is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Cartesia’s Sonic 3 model is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. Sonic 3 is Cartesia's latest state space model (SSM) for streaming text-to-speech (TTS), delivering high naturalness, accurate transcript following, and industry-leading latency with fine-grained control over volume, speed, and emotion. Sonic 3 supports 42 languages and provides advanced controllability through API parameters and SSML tags for volume, speed, and emotion adjustments. The model includes natural laughter support, stable voices optimized for voice agents, and emotive voices for expressive characters. With sub-100ms latency, Sonic 3 enables real-time conversational AI that captures human speech nuances including emotions and tonal shifts. With SageMaker JumpStart, customers can deploy Sonic 3 with just a few clicks to address their voice AI use cases. To get started with this model, navigate to the SageMaker JumpStart model catalog in the SageMaker Studio or use the SageMaker Python SDK to deploy the model to your AWS account. For more information about deploying and using foundation models in SageMaker JumpStart, see the [Amazon SageMaker JumpStart documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/studio-jumpstart.html).