Mistral launches Voxtral 3 speech models and voice agent SDK
Mistral introduces Voxtral 3, a family of speech-to-text and text-to-speech models plus a voice agent SDK that combines listening, reasoning, tool calling, and speaking in a real-time streaming pipeline. Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 supports 50+ languages with diarization, end-of-turn detection, and context biasing. Voxtral Mini TTS 3 offers expressive voices across 35+ languages. Models are available via Mistral's EU-hosted API or for self-deployment. Benchmark charts compare word error rates against Whisper, Scribe v2, and Gemini 3.5 Transcribe.
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Mistral introduces Voxtral 3, a family of speech-to-text and text-to-speech models plus a voice agent SDK that combines listening, reasoning, tool calling, and speaking in a real-time streaming pipeline. Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 supports 50+ languages with diarization, end-of-turn detection, and context biasing. Voxtral Mini TTS 3 offers expressive voices across 35+ languages. Models are available via Mistral's EU-hosted API or for self-deployment. Benchmark charts compare word error rates against Whisper, Scribe v2, and Gemini 3.5 Transcribe.
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- Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 supports 50 languages and includes diarization, context biasing, and end-of-turn detection.
- The source reports Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 outperforms Whisper, Scribe v2, and Gemini 3.5 Transcribe on its FLEURS benchmark chart.
- Voxtral Mini TTS 3 supports 35+ languages and 50+ dialects with voices that adjust emotion, pace, and emphasis.
- Models can run on Mistral's EU-hosted API or on the organization's own infrastructure.
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Mistral released Voxtral 3 Transcribe and Speech models powering a new voice agents API and SDK for real-time, multi-step conversations in 50+ languages, with tool integration, available via its EU-hosted API or self-deployment. 768 points on HN. Primary page date unverified (X launch post Oct 20).
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Combining transcription, reasoning, tool calling, and speech synthesis in one real-time SDK, with self-hosting options, targets contact centers and voice assistants that need data control.
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