General American English

Shelly

Warm Companion

Friendly voice with a bright, approachable tone that feels natural and welcoming in any setting

Open in Playground Talk to sales

144/500

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Native voice

General American English

Region

United States

Gender

Feminine

Style

Conversational, Emotive

Call Shelly from the API

Use this voice ID in a Sonic text-to-speech request. Replace the transcript with your own English script to generate new speech.

Text-to-speech API reference

Voice ID: 0d2162c2-2fe9-40a7-b3c1-43eab576a64b

from cartesia import Cartesia

client = Cartesia(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")

response = client.tts.generate(
    model_id="sonic-3.6",
    transcript="I can help you change the delivery address if your package hasn't shipped yet. Send me the new address, and I'll check whether we can update it.",
    voice="0d2162c2-2fe9-40a7-b3c1-43eab576a64b",
    language="en",
    output_format={"container": "wav", "encoding": "pcm_f32le", "sample_rate": 44100},
)
response.write_to_file("shelly.wav")