Mistral has released new Speech models! Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 takes the #3 spot on the Artificial Analysis Speech to Text leaderboard, and Voxtral 3 TTS enters the top 12 in both Text to Speech arenas

@MistralAI has released Voxtral 3: a new Text to Speech model and three Speech to Text models (Small Transcribe 3, Mini Transcribe 3 and Mini Transcribe Realtime 3). We evaluated all of them.

Key takeaways:

➤ Speech to Text: Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 takes the #3 spot on the Artificial Analysis Speech to Text leaderboard with a 2.1% AA-WER Index, ahead of ElevenLabs Scribe v2 (2.2%) and Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 (2.3%). Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 lands at #5 with 2.2%.

➤ Streaming Speech to Text: Voxtral Mini Transcribe Realtime 3 scores 3.3% final-transcript AA-WER at the 960 ms setting (#6 of 46) and 3.6% at 480 ms, down from 5.2% for the previous Voxtral Mini Transcribe Realtime.

➤ Text to Speech, Provider Voice: Voxtral 3 TTS scores an Elo of 1,218 across 1,599 arena appearances, ranking #12 of 98, just behind Breeze TTS 2 at 1,221 and ahead of Inworld Realtime TTS-2 Flash and StepAudio 2.5 TTS at 1,216. It ranks #13 in English (US) and #12 in English (UK).

➤ Text to Speech, Controlled Voice: Voxtral 3 TTS scores 1,068 across 1,614 appearances, ranking #12 of 43 with the same 8 cloned voices, behind Eleven v3 at 1,072 and level with Ant Group's Ming-3.0-tts at 1,068. It ranks #10 in Assistants and #10 in English (UK).

➤ Pronunciation Robustness: Voxtral 3 TTS scores 84.4%, ranking #13 of 32 models, behind Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus at 84.6% and ahead of HeyGen Voice at 83.2%. It ranks #3 in Standalone Terms at 93.9%.

➤ Pricing: Voxtral 3 TTS is priced at $13/1M characters, compared to Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS at $16.5/1M characters, Eleven v4 Turbo at $40/1M characters and Simba 3.2 at $6.6/1M characters.

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