Mistral releases Voxtral 3: speech recognition and synthesis models in 50+ languages and an SDK for voice agents
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Voice assistants in many languages, including European ones, can be assembled from ready-made parts, with data kept in the EU.
The family includes the transcription models Voxtral Small Transcribe 3, Mini Transcribe 3 and Mini Transcribe Realtime 3 (latency under 500 ms), as well as Voxtral Speech 3 for speech synthesis. Transcription works in 50+ languages, including the 24 official EU languages; synthesis covers 35+ languages. According to Mistral, the largest transcription model outperforms Whisper and Gemini 3.5 on their benchmarks. Access is through an EU-hosted API or self-deployment; transcription costs from $0.0035 to $0.008 per minute and synthesis $13 per million characters.
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