diff --git a/lib/synth-audio.js b/lib/synth-audio.js
index 5b491f6..f114a05 100644
--- a/lib/synth-audio.js
+++ b/lib/synth-audio.js
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ const fs = require('fs');
 const bent = require('bent');
 const ttsGoogle = require('@google-cloud/text-to-speech');
 const { PollyClient, SynthesizeSpeechCommand } = require('@aws-sdk/client-polly');
+const { CartesiaClient } = require('@cartesia/cartesia-js');
 
 const sdk = require('microsoft-cognitiveservices-speech-sdk');
 const TextToSpeechV1 = require('ibm-watson/text-to-speech/v1');
@@ -96,7 +97,7 @@ async function synthAudio(client, createHash, retrieveHash, logger, stats, { acc
   logger = logger || noopLogger;
 
   assert.ok(['google', 'aws', 'polly', 'microsoft', 'wellsaid', 'nuance', 'nvidia', 'ibm', 'elevenlabs',
-    'whisper', 'deepgram', 'playht', 'rimelabs', 'verbio'].includes(vendor) ||
+    'whisper', 'deepgram', 'playht', 'rimelabs', 'verbio', 'cartesia'].includes(vendor) ||
   vendor.startsWith('custom'),
   `synthAudio supported vendors are google, aws, microsoft, nuance, nvidia and wellsaid ..etc, not ${vendor}`);
   if ('google' === vendor) {
@@ -157,7 +158,9 @@ async function synthAudio(client, createHash, retrieveHash, logger, stats, { acc
     if (!credentials.deepgram_tts_uri) {
       assert.ok(credentials.api_key, 'synthAudio requires api_key when deepgram is used');
     }
-
+  } else if ('cartesia' === vendor) {
+    assert.ok(credentials.api_key, 'synthAudio requires api_key when cartesia is used');
+    assert.ok(credentials.model_id, 'synthAudio requires model_id when cartesia is used');
   }
 
   const key = makeSynthKey({
@@ -261,6 +264,11 @@ async function synthAudio(client, createHash, retrieveHash, logger, stats, { acc
           credentials, options, stats, language, voice, text, renderForCaching, disableTtsStreaming, filePath
         });
         break;
+      case 'cartesia':
+        audioBuffer = await synthCartesia(logger, {
+          credentials, options, stats, language, voice, text, renderForCaching, disableTtsStreaming, filePath
+        });
+        break;
       case 'rimelabs':
         audioBuffer = await synthRimelabs(logger, {
           credentials, options, stats, language, voice, text, renderForCaching, disableTtsStreaming, filePath
@@ -1067,6 +1075,71 @@ const synthDeepgram = async(logger, {credentials, stats, model, text, renderForC
   }
 };
 
+const synthCartesia = async(logger, {
+  credentials, options, stats, voice, language, text, renderForCaching, disableTtsStreaming
+}) => {
+  const {api_key, model_id, embedding, options: credOpts} = credentials;
+  const opts = !!options && Object.keys(options).length !== 0 ? options : JSON.parse(credOpts || '{}');
+
+  if (!JAMBONES_DISABLE_TTS_STREAMING && !renderForCaching && !disableTtsStreaming) {
+    let params = '';
+    params += `{api_key=${api_key}`;
+    params += `,model_id=${model_id}`;
+    params += ',vendor=cartesia';
+    params += `,voice=${voice}`;
+    params += ',write_cache_file=1';
+    params += `,language=${language}`;
+    params += `,voice_mode=${embedding ? 'embedding' : 'id'}`;
+    if (embedding) params += `,embedding=${embedding}`;
+    if (opts.speed) params += `,speed=${opts.speed}`;
+    if (opts.emotion) params += `,emotion=${opts.emotion}`;
+    params += '}';
+
+    return {
+      filePath: `say:${params}${text.replace(/\n/g, ' ').replace(/\r/g, ' ')}`,
+      servedFromCache: false,
+      rtt: 0
+    };
+  }
+
+  try {
+    const client = new CartesiaClient({ apiKey: api_key });
+    const mp3 = await client.tts.bytes({
+      modelId: model_id,
+      transcript: text,
+      voice: {
+        mode: embedding ? 'embedding' : 'id',
+        ...(embedding ?
+          {
+            embedding: embedding.split(',').map(Number)
+          } :
+          {
+            id: voice
+          }
+        ),
+        ...(opts.speed || opts.emotion && {
+          experimentalControls: {
+            ...(opts.speed && {speed: opts.speed}),
+            ...(opts.emotion && {emotion: opts.emotion}),
+          }
+        })
+      },
+      language: language,
+      outputFormat: {
+        container: 'mp3',
+        bitRate: 128000,
+        sampleRate: 8000
+      },
+    });
+    return Buffer.from(mp3);
+  } catch (err) {
+    logger.info({err}, 'synth Cartesia returned error');
+    stats.increment('tts.count', ['vendor:cartesia', 'accepted:no']);
+    throw err;
+  }
+
+};
+
 const getFileExtFromMime = (mime) => {
   switch (mime) {
     case 'audio/wav':
diff --git a/lib/utils.js b/lib/utils.js
index 86b74d7..ec5338d 100644
--- a/lib/utils.js
+++ b/lib/utils.js
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ function getFileExtension({vendor, voice, renderForCaching = false}) {
     case 'elevenlabs':
     case 'rimelabs':
     case 'playht':
+    case 'cartesia':
       if (renderForCaching || JAMBONES_DISABLE_TTS_STREAMING) {
         return mp3Extension;
       } else {
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 4304bbc..cf41525 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
       "dependencies": {
         "@aws-sdk/client-polly": "^3.496.0",
         "@aws-sdk/client-sts": "^3.496.0",
+        "@cartesia/cartesia-js": "^2.1.0",
         "@google-cloud/text-to-speech": "^5.5.0",
         "@grpc/grpc-js": "^1.9.14",
         "@jambonz/realtimedb-helpers": "^0.8.7",
@@ -1173,6 +1174,92 @@
         "node": ">=6.9.0"
       }
     },
+    "node_modules/@cartesia/cartesia-js": {
+      "version": "2.1.0",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@cartesia/cartesia-js/-/cartesia-js-2.1.0.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-r4uqhFWxVmFbm0A6aDeY0y3RVJHAc6PQ8hTwHmb2ZO2kmyAP4WoZdEEQ9GIU/5c1XpV5n3Y/y6zKjMzUwgG64A==",
+      "dependencies": {
+        "emittery": "^0.13.1",
+        "form-data": "^4.0.0",
+        "form-data-encoder": "^4.0.2",
+        "formdata-node": "^6.0.3",
+        "human-id": "^4.1.1",
+        "node-fetch": "2.7.0",
+        "qs": "6.11.2",
+        "readable-stream": "^4.5.2",
+        "url-join": "4.0.1",
+        "ws": "^8.15.13"
+      }
+    },
+    "node_modules/@cartesia/cartesia-js/node_modules/form-data": {
+      "version": "4.0.1",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/form-data/-/form-data-4.0.1.tgz",
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+      "license": "MIT",
+      "dependencies": {
+        "asynckit": "^0.4.0",
+        "combined-stream": "^1.0.8",
+        "mime-types": "^2.1.12"
+      },
+      "engines": {
+        "node": ">= 6"
+      }
+    },
+    "node_modules/@cartesia/cartesia-js/node_modules/form-data-encoder": {
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+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/form-data-encoder/-/form-data-encoder-4.0.2.tgz",
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+      "license": "MIT",
+      "engines": {
+        "node": ">= 18"
+      }
+    },
+    "node_modules/@cartesia/cartesia-js/node_modules/formdata-node": {
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+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/formdata-node/-/formdata-node-6.0.3.tgz",
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+      "license": "MIT",
+      "engines": {
+        "node": ">= 18"
+      }
+    },
+    "node_modules/@cartesia/cartesia-js/node_modules/readable-stream": {
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+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/readable-stream/-/readable-stream-4.5.2.tgz",
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+        "buffer": "^6.0.3",
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+        "string_decoder": "^1.3.0"
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+      "license": "MIT",
+      "engines": {
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+      },
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+      }
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+    "qs": {
+      "version": "6.11.2",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/qs/-/qs-6.11.2.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-tDNIz22aBzCDxLtVH++VnTfzxlfeK5CbqohpSqpJgj1Wg/cQbStNAz3NuqCs5vV+pjBsK4x4pN9HlVh7rcYRiA==",
+      "requires": {
+        "side-channel": "^1.0.4"
+      }
+    },
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       "version": "2.2.0",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/querystringify/-/querystringify-2.2.0.tgz",
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         "get-intrinsic": "^1.0.2",
@@ -12718,6 +12888,11 @@
         "punycode": "^2.1.0"
       }
     },
+    "url-join": {
+      "version": "4.0.1",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/url-join/-/url-join-4.0.1.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-jk1+QP6ZJqyOiuEI9AEWQfju/nB2Pw466kbA0LEZljHwKeMgd9WrAEgEGxjPDD2+TNbbb37rTyhEfrCXfuKXnA=="
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diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f2e3f97..5590074 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "@aws-sdk/client-polly": "^3.496.0",
     "@aws-sdk/client-sts": "^3.496.0",
+    "@cartesia/cartesia-js": "^2.1.0",
     "@google-cloud/text-to-speech": "^5.5.0",
     "@grpc/grpc-js": "^1.9.14",
     "@jambonz/realtimedb-helpers": "^0.8.7",
diff --git a/test/synth.js b/test/synth.js
index ce4a6f4..7d867c2 100644
--- a/test/synth.js
+++ b/test/synth.js
@@ -686,6 +686,40 @@ test('PlayHT3.0 speech synth tests', async(t) => {
   await testPlayHT(t, 'Play3.0');
 });
 
+test('Cartesia speech synth tests', async(t) => {
+  const fn = require('..');
+  const {synthAudio, client} = fn(opts, logger);
+
+  if (!process.env.CARTESIA_API_KEY) {
+    t.pass('skipping Cartesia speech synth tests since CARTESIA_API_KEY is not provided');
+    return t.end();
+  }
+  const text = 'Hi there and welcome to jambones! ' + Date.now();
+  try {
+    const opts = await synthAudio(stats, {
+      vendor: 'cartesia',
+      credentials: {
+        api_key: process.env.CARTESIA_API_KEY,
+        model_id: 'sonic-english',
+        options: JSON.stringify({
+          speed: 1,
+          emotion: 'female_happy',
+        })
+      },
+      language: 'en',
+      voice: '694f9389-aac1-45b6-b726-9d9369183238',
+      text,
+      renderForCaching: true
+    });
+    t.ok(!opts.servedFromCache, `successfully playht eleven audio to ${opts.filePath}`);
+
+  } catch (err) {
+    console.error(JSON.stringify(err));
+    t.end(err);
+  }
+  client.quit();
+});
+
 test('rimelabs speech synth tests', async(t) => {
   const fn = require('..');
   const {synthAudio, client} = fn(opts, logger);