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Add Cartesia text-to-speech to Bolna voice agents for ultra-fast, natural sounding voice output. Built from the ground up for real-time phone conversations.

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At a glance

How Cartesia fits in the stack

Best for

Natural delivery, tone, and response speed on live calls.

Use this layer when

You care about voice quality, expressiveness, or low-latency playback.

Connects to

LLM output upstream and the phone network downstream.

Voice Stack

Text-to-speech is the speaking layer

Text-to-speech is the speaking layer

This provider turns the agent’s response into audio the caller hears. It affects brand perception, caller comfort, and how quickly the next utterance can begin.

TelephonyPhone Network
STTListener
LLMReasoning
TTSVoice
ToolsActions

This page focuses on where Cartesia fits in a production voice stack. For full setup steps, credentials, and API details, use the documentation link above.

Overview

Cartesia delivers low latency text-to-speech that is made for real-time voice applications. With Bolna's Cartesia integration, you can build voice agents with near-instantaneous speech synthesis, creating natural, flowing conversations without visible delays.

Cartesia's TTS achieves sub-300ms latency from text input to audio output, which is critical for maintaining natural conversation rhythm where even small delays can feel awkward to callers.

Features & Use Cases

Ultra-Fast Responses (Under 300ms)
Cartesia generates speech in less than 300 milliseconds. This removes awkward pauses and keeps conversations flowing naturally.

Real-Time Audio Streaming
Audio plays as it is being created. This lets voice agents start talking even before the whole sentence is ready, making interactions feel instant and real.

Natural, Human-Like Voices
Even though it's incredibly fast, Cartesia sounds like a real person with natural tone, emotion, and rhythm.

Lots of Voice Choices
Pick from a wide variety of voices, accents, and styles to perfectly match your brand.

Built for Phone Calls
Optimized specifically for real-time voice applications like phone calls, ensuring smooth and delay-free conversations.

Use Case: Fast-Paced Customer Support
Perfect for busy customer service calls where quick, clear answers keep customers happy and help resolve issues faster.

Use Case: Financial Services & Trading
Ideal for high stakes trading or banking support where every second matters and delays cause frustration.

Use Case: Urgent Response Lines
Great for emergency or urgent situations where fast communication is needed to deliver critical information immediately.

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Text-to-Speech

Text-to-speech turns your agent responses into spoken audio. Voice quality shapes how callers perceive your brand. Flat, robotic speech kills trust while natural, expressive voices build it. Bolna integrates with the fastest TTS providers so responses sound human and arrive without awkward pauses.

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Telephony

Telephony providers connect your voice agents to the phone network so they can make and receive real calls. Bolna supports managed integrations with major carriers as well as bring-your-own-carrier via SIP trunking, giving you full control over call routing, number provisioning, and cost.

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Large Language Models

The LLM is the brain of your voice agent. It understands what callers say and decides how to respond. Bolna lets you swap between models like GPT-4o, Claude, and DeepSeek without changing your agent configuration, so you can optimize for speed, cost, or reasoning depth.

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Speech-to-Text

Speech-to-text converts what callers say into text that your LLM can process. Transcription accuracy and latency directly affect how natural a conversation feels. Bolna supports streaming STT providers optimized for telephony audio, including specialized models for Indian languages.

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Tools & Workflows

Tools let your voice agents take action during a call, not just talk. Book a calendar slot, look up an order in Shopify, push a lead into your CRM, or trigger a multi-step automation in Zapier. These integrations turn voice agents from answering machines into workflow engines.

See where Cartesia fits in your production workflow

Use the demo to walk through provider selection, stack tradeoffs, and the exact workflow you want Bolna to automate.