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About
Cartesia Ink is a family of real-time streaming speech-to-text (STT) models designed to power fast, natural conversations in voice AI applications, acting as the “voice input” layer that converts spoken language into accurate text instantly. Its flagship model, Ink-Whisper, is specifically engineered for conversational environments, delivering ultra-low latency transcription with a time-to-complete-transcript as fast as 66 milliseconds, enabling fluid, human-like interactions without noticeable delays. Unlike traditional transcription systems built for batch processing, Ink is optimized for live dialogue, handling fragmented, variable-length audio through dynamic chunking, which reduces errors and improves responsiveness during pauses, interruptions, or rapid exchanges.
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About
Velma is a voice-native AI model developed by Modulate as part of a broader voice intelligence platform, designed to understand conversations directly from audio rather than relying on text transcripts. Unlike traditional systems that convert speech into text and analyze it with language models, Velma uses an Ensemble Listening Model (ELM), a specialized architecture that processes multiple dimensions of voice simultaneously, including tone, emotion, pacing, intent, and behavioral signals. This allows it to capture the full meaning of a conversation, not just the words spoken, recognizing nuances such as stress, deception, sarcasm, or escalation in real time. It operates by combining hundreds of specialized detectors, each focused on specific aspects of speech like emotional state, inappropriate conduct, or synthetic voice indicators, and then fusing those signals into higher-level insights about what is happening in a conversation.
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Platforms Supported
Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
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Audience
Developers building real-time voice agents and conversational AI systems who need ultra-fast, accurate speech-to-text for live interactions
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Enterprise operations and trust & safety teams that need real-time voice intelligence to monitor conversations, detect risk, and enforce compliance across human and AI interactions
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24/7 Live Support
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Pricing
$4 per month
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Pricing
$0.25 per hour
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Company InformationCartesia
Founded: 2023
United States
cartesia.ai/ink
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Company InformationModulate
Founded: 2019
United States
www.modulate.ai/velma
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