Introducing Ink-2: The #1-ranked STT built for voice agents

Cartesia released Ink-2, a speech-to-text model for voice agents that is ranked #1 on Artificial Analysis's streaming leaderboard for lowest word error rate. The model features built-in semantic turn detection and low latency with a time-to-final-transcript of 0.1 seconds. Ink-2 is available via API and on platforms including LiveKit, Vapi, and Pipecat.