Localize Voice
Create a new voice from an existing voice localized into a catalog accent. Pass a catalog accent id from GET /accents (for example parisian or southern-us). Language is derived from the accent; display names are rejected. The accent must be localizable (is_localizable true).
Authorizations
Cartesia API key (sk_car_...). Get one at play.cartesia.ai/keys.
Headers
API version header.
2026-08-14 "2026-08-14"
Body
Request to localize a voice into an accent.
Source voice to localize.
Name for the localized voice.
Catalog accent id from GET /accents (e.g. southern-us or parisian). Required. Display names are rejected. Language is derived from this accent. The accent must be localizable (is_localizable true).
abruzzo-italian, african-american, african-french, arabic, arabic-english, australian, bagheli, belgian-french, brazilian-portuguese, british, budapest, bulgarian, california, camba, campania, canadian-english, canadian-french, castilian, central-tamil, central-thai, central-vietnamese, chilean, colombian, czech, danish, european-portuguese, finnish, general-american, high-german, hindi, indian-english, indian-urdu, irish, israeli, istanbul, italian, jakarta, japanese, jessore, khaleeji, konkani, korean, kyiv, malay, mandarin, manila, mexican, middle-eastern-arabic, midwestern-american, modern-standard-arabic, moldovan, new-york, new-zealand, north-kerala, odia, oslo, parisian, parsi, peruvian, polish, powadhi, randstad, romanian, russian, singaporean, slovak, south-african, southern-us, southern-karnataka, southern-vietnamese, standard-japanese, stockholm, swiss-standard, taiwanese-mandarin, tbilisi, telangana, urdu, thessaloniki, zagreb "southern-us"
Description for the localized voice.
Optional short tagline for the localized voice.
Controls who can access this resource. Prefer "public" | "private". Deprecated nested { "type": "public" | "private" } is still accepted.
private, public Response
The ID of the voice. Find one in the Voice Library or via List Voices.
Who can use the resource. private means only the owner can use the resource. public means everyone can use the resource.
private, public The name of the voice.
A few words describing the voice.
A description for the voice, typically longer than the tagline if both are provided.
The date and time the voice was created.
The voice's language, as an ISO 639-1 code (e.g. en, fr, zh)
"en"
The ID of the user who owns the voice.
When the resource is returned by the list endpoint. owner means the resource appears for the owner only. all means the resource appears for all users.
owner, all