Real-time TTS API with AI laughter and emotion | Cartesia Sonic-3 | Icebreaker

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Real-time TTS API with AI laughter and emotion | Cartesia Sonic-3 | Icebreaker

Real-time TTS API with AI laughter and emotion | Cartesia Sonic-3

Real-time TTS API with AI laughter and emotion | Cartesia Sonic-3

Integrate real-time text-to-speech with Sonic-3, Cartesia’s streaming TTS API. Generate natural, expressive voices with laughter in 40+ languages—built for AI agents and interactive apps.

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Founder at Hockey Stick | 3X exits | Ex-Otter.ai, Heygen, Cartesia, Microsoft

Israel (Iz) Shalom

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Head of Product at Cartesia. Ex-founder, ex-Google.

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Building Cartesia and bringing state space models to the mainstream.

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Cartesia.ai 🚀

Shikhar Agarwal

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Unicorn Founder - now Next Startup | Inventor of Travel-as-a-Service | Advisor, investor

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Jihong Kim is a venture capitalist at Samsung Ventures and has led both financial and strategic investments in software, digital media, and services. Noteworthy exits include SentinelOne (NYSE: S), Couchbase (NASDAQ: BASE), BigCommerce (NASDAQ: BIGC), Raxium (acquired by Google), ClassPass (acquired by Mindbody), Centrify (acquired by Thoma Bravo), Pluto.tv (acquired by Viacom), Fetch Robotics (acquired by Zebra Technologies), and Loom.ai (acquired by Roblox). He works closely with multiple business units across Samsung in mobile, consumer electronics and enterprise software sectors in order to identify and build strategic partnerships. Before joining Samsung Ventures, Jihong worked as a research analyst in a global long-short equity hedge fund. Prior to that, he advised enterprise clients in business strategy and execution as a management consultant at PwC. He began his career as a software engineer in Lucent Technologies and also held technical positions at early-stage tech start-ups. Jihong holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

Elliot Michaels

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Hiring for the next generation of real-time AI models @ Cartesia (x-Netflix, x-Uber, x-Scale AI)

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Applied Researcher @ Prime Intellect | prev: Cartesia, Beacons (YC S19), Soma Capital, Harvard College

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Enterprise Investor, Advisor, and Mentor to over 200+ companies. 🕉️☸️ Ex-CTO & senior executive at F50 firm. Highlighted Companies * Atlan, BigID, BigPanda (GFP), Boomi (TPG), Capitolis (GFP), Coralogix (GFP), Cribl, Cyera, DataRobot (via Paxata acq.), Drata, Exodigo, Fireblocks, New Relic (TPG), Nintex (TPG), Orca, Sauce Labs (TPG), Snyk, Starburst, Tessl, Upwind Security, Vast Data (GFP). * Aera, Balance, Blockaid, Cartesia AI, Genesis Global, Legit, Nansen, Oasis Security, Obsidian, Opal, RASA, Silverfort (GFP), Sintra, Startree, Torq, Tradier, Traversal, Zafran Security. * AdaptiveML, Dash0, Decodable, DragonflyDB, Gitpod, Gradient Labs, Great Expectations, Elos Health (GFP), Emerix, Hakimo, Lakera, Lightdash, Linx Security, Nilus, Nylas, Patlytics, Patronus AI, Project Discovery, Reliant AI, Replicated, Restate, Savvy, Slice, Spaitial, Speakeasy, Tiger Beetle, Tracebit, Trustmi, Voyantis, Wing Security. * 10+ Stealth companies. * Anaplan (IPO; acq. by Thoma Bravo), Forgerock (IPO; acq. by Thoma Bravo), LeanIX (acq. by SAP), Zscaler-TPG (IPO). * Agari (acq. by Help Systems), Apigee (IPO; acq. by Google), Armorblox (acq. by Cisco), Avalor (acq. by Zscaler), Avi Networks (acq. by VMW), Awake Security (acq. by Arista), Axis Security (acq. by HPE), Bionic (acq. by Crowdstrike), Determined (acq. by HPE), Guardicore (acq. by Akamai), Humio (acq. by Crowdstrike), Instana (acq. by IBM), Noname Security (acq. by Akamai), Skyhigh Networks (acq. by McAfee), Sonatype-TPG (acquired by Vista), Talon (acq. by PANW), Trail Security (acq. by Cyera). I am actively looking for investor, advisor, or board roles in the following areas: 1) Hyper-scale Infrastructure; 2) Cloud Platform and Services; 3) Enterprise IoT & 5G/6G based Mobility; 4) Next-Generation Security Platforms; 5) API-based Platform Services; 6) Big Data Platforms; 7) Generative AI and beyond; 8) Enterprise Horizontal/Vertical SaaS Applications; 9) Finance 4.0 (B2B, Embedded Fi, Tradfi, Defi, NFT); and 10) Climate Tech/Deep Tech.

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Experienced Product Manager and Engineer focused on robotics and productization of complex technical systems with a passion for building and driving teams to deliver high-impact products. Domain expertise in robotics (human-robot interaction, field robotics, multi-agent systems), product strategy (general PM, go-to-market strategy, organizational design), and design (interaction design, design systems, character design, industrial design, UX research). Wrote academic things in a previous life: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qqhg3ukAAAAJ&hl=en