# Cartesia — A Beginner's Guide to Voice AI Terminology

- Company: Cartesia (cartesia.ai)
- Announced: 2026-06-30
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://www.cartesia.ai/blog/voice-terminology
- Record: https://forck.live/items/8011-a-beginner-s-guide-to-voice-ai-terminology
- Subject: Sonic / Ink
- Models affected: Ink, Sonic, Ink-2

Cartesia published a guide to voice AI terminology, explaining concepts such as STT, VAD, TTS, and turn detection, and referencing its own models Ink, Ink-2, and Sonic.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.cartesia.ai/blog/voice-terminology:

> This blog gives you the vocabulary you need to understand, explore and reason about Conversational AI Agents

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