Mistral Claims Voxtral 3 Tops Multilingual Transcription in 50 Languages
Summary
Mistral releases Voxtral 3, a family of speech-to-text and text-to-speech models plus a voice agent SDK, claiming state-of-the-art multilingual transcription across 50 or more languages. The company prices Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 at $0.0035 per minute in batch and Voxtral Mini TTS 3 at $13 per million characters. It runs on Mistral's EU-hosted API or on customer infrastructure.
Key Points
- Mistral claims Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 beats Whisper, Scribe v2 and Gemini 3.5 Transcribe on multilingual transcription and diarization.
- The voice agent SDK, built on LiveKit, completes each conversational turn in under one second, Mistral says.
- Mistral prices the voice agent API at $0.04 per minute with Mistral Small 4 handling reasoning.