Goel: Cartesia's Sonic TTS engine reduces typical voice latency by 150ms
Karan Goel · No Priors Ep. 70 | With Cartesia Co-Founders Karan Goel & Albert Gu · Jun 27, 2024 · at 1:16
Karan Goel, co-founder of Cartesia, discusses the low-latency performance of Cartesia's Sonic voice synthesis model compared to standard industry tools.
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“Even with what we've done with Sonic, we're already kind of shaving off, like, a 150 milliseconds off of you know, what they typically use.”
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