Cartesia Sonic 3.5
Cartesia Sonic 3.5 turns text into speech for $0.078 per 1K characters on LLM API.
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| Text to speech | $0.078/ 1K characters | per 1K characters |
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Call Cartesia Sonic 3.5
POST /v1/audio/speechSet LLMAPI_KEY to your LLM API key.Speech docs
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.llmapi.ai/v1",
api_key=os.environ["LLMAPI_KEY"],
)
speech = client.audio.speech.create(
model="sonic-3.5",
voice="f786b574-daa5-4673-aa0c-cbe3e8534c02",
input="Hello from LLM API",
)
speech.write_to_file("hello.mp3")import fs from "node:fs";
import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
baseURL: "https://api.llmapi.ai/v1",
apiKey: process.env.LLMAPI_KEY,
});
const speech = await client.audio.speech.create({
model: "sonic-3.5",
voice: "f786b574-daa5-4673-aa0c-cbe3e8534c02",
input: "Hello from LLM API",
});
fs.writeFileSync("hello.mp3", Buffer.from(await speech.arrayBuffer()));curl https://api.llmapi.ai/v1/audio/speech \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $LLMAPI_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "sonic-3.5",
"voice": "f786b574-daa5-4673-aa0c-cbe3e8534c02",
"input": "Hello from LLM API"
}' \
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