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Cartesia Deep Dive: From Sonic Streaming TTS to a Real-Time Voice Agent Pipeline

Cartesia's core is Sonic real-time TTS, Ink STT, and streaming inference. Although it offers the Line voice-agent platform in 2026, buyers must still separate the model layer from telephony orchestration and design consent, retention, and fallback for cloned voices.

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Funding Brief|Wispr Series B $280M

Wispr closed a $280M Series B led by Menlo Ventures at a $2B valuation (up ~3x from $700M in November 2025). This round signals VCs betting that voice will replace text input as the next human-computer interface entry point.