# Cartesia — New to Ink-2: keyterm prompting and configurable turn detection

- Company: Cartesia (cartesia.ai)
- Announced: 2026-08-11
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://www.cartesia.ai/blog/keyterm-prompting
- Record: https://forck.live/items/8007-new-to-ink-2-keyterm-prompting-and-configurable-turn-detection
- Subject: Sonic / Ink
- Models affected: Ink-2

Cartesia released two new features for its Ink-2 streaming STT model: keyterm prompting to improve transcription accuracy on domain-specific entities, and configurable turn detection to tune latency and endpointing accuracy. The features are live for all Ink-2 users.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.cartesia.ai/blog/keyterm-prompting:

> we're releasing two new features: keyterm prompting, which improves transcription accuracy on complex domain-specific entities, and configurable turn detection, which tunes endpointing for speed or accuracy.

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