# Cartesia — Introducing Ink: speech-to-text models for real-time conversation

- Company: Cartesia (cartesia.ai)
- Announced: 2025-06-10
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://www.cartesia.ai/blog/introducing-ink-speech-to-text
- Record: https://forck.live/items/8017-introducing-ink-speech-to-text-models-for-real-time-conversation
- Subject: Sonic / Ink
- Models affected: Ink, Ink-Whisper
- Pricing: 1 credit per second (or $0.13/hr on our Scale plan)

Cartesia introduced Ink, a family of streaming speech-to-text models, with the debut model Ink-Whisper optimized for low-latency transcription in conversational settings.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.cartesia.ai/blog/introducing-ink-speech-to-text:

> Today we’re introducing Ink, a new family of streaming speech-to-text (STT) models for developers building real-time voice applications.

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