Chinese · 中文
An AI voice agent that speaks Chinese.
A Chinese agent writes each reply in Han characters before it is spoken in a Cartesia Sonic voice, so the voice reads Chinese as it is written rather than from pinyin. GPT Transcribe hears the caller.
What a caller hears.
A greeting as the agent writes it, in Han characters, before the voice speaks it.
您好！今天我能帮您什么？
Hello! What can I help you with today?Voices that speak it.
Choose the engine, then the voice; listen to a sample before you pick.
- Cartesia Sonic 3.6. Speaks every language on the list, with speed and tone controls.
Engines that hear it.
What turns the caller’s speech into text for the agent to read.
- GPT Transcribe. From OpenAI, in every language.
Good to know about Chinese.
- Replies are written in simplified characters unless the instructions ask for traditional ones.
- Start one call in Chinese with
language: "zh"from an English agent with a Cartesia voice, without changing the agent. - English words in a Chinese sentence are understood: every agent listens for English too.
Start a call in Chinese.
Save the agent in Chinese in the studio, or keep it as it is and hold one call in Chinese by sending its code when the call starts.
One call in Chinese
curl -X POST "https://goblins-call-api.onrender.com/v1/calls" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $CRACKLE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "agentId": "ua_3f9a1c2b", "language": "zh" }'The agent’s voice must be Cartesia Sonic; any other voice is answered 400 UNSUPPORTED_LANGUAGE. GPT Transcribe hears the caller; an agent saved with Sarvam Saaras is transcribed by GPT Transcribe for this call, with no change to the agent. This applies only to a call held in a language other than the agent’s own.
Questions.
Can a Chinese caller use English words?
Yes. Every agent listens for English as well as its own language, so a sentence that mixes the two is understood.
Can one agent take calls in Chinese and in other languages?
Yes, in two ways. Save the agent in Chinese and every call starts in it. Or keep the agent as it is and hold one call in Chinese by sending language: "zh" when you start it. The agent’s voice must be Cartesia Sonic; any other voice is answered 400 UNSUPPORTED_LANGUAGE. GPT Transcribe hears the caller; an agent saved with Sarvam Saaras is transcribed by GPT Transcribe for this call, with no change to the agent. This applies only to a call held in a language other than the agent’s own.
What does a call in Chinese cost?
The same as in any other language: $0.07 a minute, whichever voice and model, billed by the second.
Other languages.
Give your agent a voice in Chinese.
Build one in the studio and talk to it in your browser. Sign-up credit is there for your first test calls.