# Cartesia — Introducing Professional Voice Cloning

- Company: Cartesia (cartesia.ai)
- Announced: 2025-05-06
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://www.cartesia.ai/blog/pro-voice-cloning
- Record: https://forck.live/items/8019-introducing-professional-voice-cloning
- Subject: Sonic / Ink
- Models affected: Sonic
- Pricing: 1 credit per character, the same as Instant Voice Cloning

Cartesia introduced Professional Voice Clones (PVCs) built on the Sonic text-to-speech model, available on the Startup plan and above. PVCs are created by fine-tuning Sonic on voice data, enabling replicas of tone, cadence, style, and environment. Training is free, and generating PVC speech costs 1 credit per character.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.cartesia.ai/blog/pro-voice-cloning:

> Starting today, you can create Professional Voice Clones (PVCs) trained on Sonic , the world’s fastest text-to-speech model.

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