Cartesia: Ink Whisper
cartesia/ink-whisper
active
stt
1 provider
Cartesia's most affordable speech-to-text model with higher accuracy and lower latency than baseline Whisper; 99 languages.
AuthorCartesia
Languages1 languages
Statusactive
Providers
Different providers can host the same model. Choose one provider when you need a fixed backend, or let routing select among them.
ProviderSlugPer hourLatencyiFor TTS, latency is measured as time to first byte of audio. For STT, latency is measured as time to first token.ModesUptime
Cartesia
3 params
cartesia
$0.5396
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Synchronous · Streaming
Supported languages
1 languages
English
en
Features
Speech to text
Transcribes spoken audio to text.
speech_to_text
Streaming
Real-time streaming transcription over WebSocket.
streaming
Synchronous
Transcribes a fully-submitted audio file in a single synchronous request.
synchronous
Multilingual transcription
Supports 99 languages.
multilingual_transcription
Word-level timestamps
Returns a words array with word, start, and end.
word_timestamps
Code
ElevenLabs SDK streaming STT
Streams microphone or file audio through the ElevenLabs-compatible allmodels route.
import { ElevenLabsClient } from "elevenlabs";
const client = new ElevenLabsClient({
apiKey: process.env.ALLMODELS_API_KEY,
baseUrl: "https://api.allmodels.io/el"
});
const connection = await client.speechToText.realtime.connect({
modelId: "cartesia/ink-whisper",
languageCode: "en"
}, {
queryParams: {
provider: {
"only": [
"cartesia"
]
}
}
});
// Send audio frames to connection, then handle transcript events.