Cartesia incident
sonic-3-latest TTS generations using pronunciation dictionaries produce incorrect results
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Resolved after 23 minutes, affecting Text to Speech (US) and Text to Speech (EU) and 1 more, on February 19, 2026.
We have rolled back the bad deploy and pronunciation dictionaries are once again working with `sonic-3-latest`.
Affected components
Text to Speech (US)Text to Speech (EU)Text to Speech (APAC)
Update timeline
- investigating Feb 19, 2026, 06:21 PM UTC
TTS generations using pronunciation dictionaries produce incorrect audio (some structured metadata is read out in the speech). Workaround for affected customers: use `sonic-3` instead of `sonic-3-latest`.
- investigating Feb 19, 2026, 06:45 PM UTC
We have rolled back the bad deploy and pronunciation dictionaries are once again working with `sonic-3-latest`.
- resolved Feb 19, 2026, 06:45 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
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