Cartesia | Vapi

Cartesia provides speech-to-text for Vapi voice agents.

You can use Cartesia through Vapi’s default integration, or connect your own account in Integrations.

Supported capability

Capability	Provider value
Speech-to-text	`cartesia`

Speech-to-text

Set transcriber.provider to cartesia and transcriber.model to a Cartesia model.

$ curl -X PATCH "https://api.vapi.ai/assistant/ASSISTANT_ID" \
>   -H "Authorization: Bearer $VAPI_API_KEY" \
>   -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
>   -d '{
>     "transcriber": { "provider": "cartesia", "model": "ink-whisper" }
>   }'

For additional API configuration options, review the CartesiaTranscriber fields in the Create Assistant API reference.

Model	Model ID
Ink Whisper	`ink-whisper`
Ink 2	`ink-2`

Supported languages

The following language codes are currently accepted by Vapi for this capability.

Language	Language code
Afar	`aa`
Abkhazian	`ab`
Avestan	`ae`
Afrikaans	`af`
Akan	`ak`
Amharic	`am`
Aragonese	`an`
Arabic	`ar`
Assamese	`as`
Avaric	`av`
Aymara	`ay`
Azerbaijani	`az`
Bashkir	`ba`
Belarusian	`be`
Bulgarian	`bg`
Bhojpuri	`bh`
Bislama	`bi`
Bambara	`bm`
Bangla	`bn`
Tibetan	`bo`
Breton	`br`
Bosnian	`bs`
Catalan	`ca`
Chechen	`ce`
Chamorro	`ch`
Corsican	`co`
Cree	`cr`
Czech	`cs`
Church Slavic	`cu`
Chuvash	`cv`
Welsh	`cy`
Danish	`da`
German	`de`
Divehi	`dv`
Dzongkha	`dz`
Ewe	`ee`
Greek	`el`
English	`en`
Esperanto	`eo`
Spanish	`es`
Estonian	`et`
Basque	`eu`
Persian	`fa`
Fula	`ff`
Finnish	`fi`
Fijian	`fj`
Faroese	`fo`
French	`fr`
Western Frisian	`fy`
Irish	`ga`
Scottish Gaelic	`gd`
Galician	`gl`
Guarani	`gn`
Gujarati	`gu`
Manx	`gv`
Hausa	`ha`
Hebrew	`he`
Hindi	`hi`
Hiri Motu	`ho`
Croatian	`hr`
Haitian Creole	`ht`
Hungarian	`hu`
Armenian	`hy`
Herero	`hz`
Interlingua	`ia`
Indonesian	`id`
Interlingue	`ie`
Igbo	`ig`
Sichuan Yi	`ii`
Inupiaq	`ik`
Ido	`io`
Icelandic	`is`
Italian	`it`
Inuktitut	`iu`
Japanese	`ja`
Javanese	`jv`
Georgian	`ka`
Kongo	`kg`
Kikuyu	`ki`
Kuanyama	`kj`
Kazakh	`kk`
Kalaallisut	`kl`
Khmer	`km`
Kannada	`kn`
Korean	`ko`
Kanuri	`kr`
Kashmiri	`ks`
Kurdish	`ku`
Komi	`kv`
Cornish	`kw`
Kyrgyz	`ky`
Latin	`la`
Luxembourgish	`lb`
Ganda	`lg`
Limburgish	`li`
Lingala	`ln`
Lao	`lo`
Lithuanian	`lt`
Luba-Katanga	`lu`
Latvian	`lv`
Malagasy	`mg`
Marshallese	`mh`
Māori	`mi`
Macedonian	`mk`
Malayalam	`ml`
Mongolian	`mn`
Marathi	`mr`
Malay	`ms`
Maltese	`mt`
Burmese	`my`
Nauru	`na`
Norwegian Bokmål	`nb`
North Ndebele	`nd`
Nepali	`ne`
Ndonga	`ng`
Dutch	`nl`
Norwegian Nynorsk	`nn`
Norwegian	`no`
South Ndebele	`nr`
Navajo	`nv`
Nyanja	`ny`
Occitan	`oc`
Ojibwa	`oj`
Oromo	`om`
Odia	`or`
Ossetic	`os`
Punjabi	`pa`
Pali	`pi`
Polish	`pl`
Pashto	`ps`
Portuguese	`pt`
Quechua	`qu`
Romansh	`rm`
Rundi	`rn`
Romanian	`ro`
Russian	`ru`
Kinyarwanda	`rw`
Sanskrit	`sa`
Sardinian	`sc`
Sindhi	`sd`
Northern Sami	`se`
Sango	`sg`
Sinhala	`si`
Slovak	`sk`
Slovenian	`sl`
Samoan	`sm`
Shona	`sn`
Somali	`so`
Albanian	`sq`
Serbian	`sr`
Swati	`ss`
Southern Sotho	`st`
Sundanese	`su`
Swedish	`sv`
Swahili	`sw`
Tamil	`ta`
Telugu	`te`
Tajik	`tg`
Thai	`th`
Tigrinya	`ti`
Turkmen	`tk`
Filipino	`tl`
Tswana	`tn`
Tongan	`to`
Turkish	`tr`
Tsonga	`ts`
Tatar	`tt`
Akan	`tw`
Tahitian	`ty`
Uyghur	`ug`
Ukrainian	`uk`
Urdu	`ur`
Uzbek	`uz`
Venda	`ve`
Vietnamese	`vi`
Volapük	`vo`
Walloon	`wa`
Wolof	`wo`
Xhosa	`xh`
Yiddish	`yi`
Cantonese	`yue`
Yoruba	`yo`
Zhuang	`za`
Chinese	`zh`
Zulu	`zu`

Cartesia text-to-speech

Configure Cartesia for text-to-speech.

Transcriber providers

Compare every transcriber provider Vapi supports.

Supported capability

Speech-to-text

Supported languages

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