Im pretty excited to play around with this. I’ve worked with whisper quite a bit, it’s awesome to have another model in the same class and from Mistral, who tend to be very open. I’m sure unsloth is already working on some GGUF quants - will probably spin it up tomorrow and try it on some audio.
24B is crazy expensive for speech transcription. Conspicuously no comparison with Parakeet, a 600M param model thats currently dominating leaderboards (but only for English)
Only the mini is meant for pure transcription. And with the tests I just did on their API, comparing to Whisper large, they are around three times faster, more accurate and cheaper.
24B is, as sibling comment says, an omni model, it can also do function calling.
In demo they mention polish prononcuation is pretty bad, spoken as if second language of english-native speaker. I wonder if it's the same for other languages. On the other hand whispering-english is hillariously good, especially different emotions.
They claim to undercut competitors of similar quality by half for both models, yet they released both as Apache 2.0 instead of following smaller - open, larger - closed strategy used for their last releases.
What's different here?
It's about what their top offering is at the moment, not having Large in name. Mistral Medium 3 is notably not Mistral Large 3, but it was released as API-only.
Running Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507 on GPU requires ~9.5 GB of GPU RAM in bf16 or fp16.
Running Voxtral-Small-24B-2507 on GPU requires ~55 GB of GPU RAM in bf16 or fp16.
Im pretty excited to play around with this. I’ve worked with whisper quite a bit, it’s awesome to have another model in the same class and from Mistral, who tend to be very open. I’m sure unsloth is already working on some GGUF quants - will probably spin it up tomorrow and try it on some audio.
24B is crazy expensive for speech transcription. Conspicuously no comparison with Parakeet, a 600M param model thats currently dominating leaderboards (but only for English)
Only the mini is meant for pure transcription. And with the tests I just did on their API, comparing to Whisper large, they are around three times faster, more accurate and cheaper.
24B is, as sibling comment says, an omni model, it can also do function calling.
But it also includes world knowledge, can do tool calls, etc. It’s an omnimodel
In demo they mention polish prononcuation is pretty bad, spoken as if second language of english-native speaker. I wonder if it's the same for other languages. On the other hand whispering-english is hillariously good, especially different emotions.
It is insane how good the "French man speaking English" demo is. It captures a lot of subtleties
That’s an actual French man speaking English
There is also a Voxtral Small 24B small model available to be downloaded: https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Voxtral-Small-24B-2507
Does it support realtime transcription? What is the ~latency?
Unlikely. The small model is much larger than whisper (which is already hard to use for realtime)
weights:https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507 and https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Voxtral-Small-24B-2507
Running Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507 on GPU requires ~9.5 GB of GPU RAM in bf16 or fp16.
Running Voxtral-Small-24B-2507 on GPU requires ~55 GB of GPU RAM in bf16 or fp16.
They claim to undercut competitors of similar quality by half for both models, yet they released both as Apache 2.0 instead of following smaller - open, larger - closed strategy used for their last releases. What's different here?
They didn't release voxtral large so your question doesn't really make sense
It's about what their top offering is at the moment, not having Large in name. Mistral Medium 3 is notably not Mistral Large 3, but it was released as API-only.
They're working on a bunch of features so maybe those will be closed. I guess they're feeling generous on the base model.
Probably not looking to directly compete in transcription space
My Whisper v3 Large Turbo is $0.001/min, so their price comparison is not exactly perfect.
How did you achieve that? I was looking into it and $0.006/min is quoted everywhere.
Harvesting idle compute. https://borgcloud.org/speech-to-text
Do you support speaker recognition?
No. I found models doing that unreliable when there are many speakers.
This is your service?
Yes