Mistral's open-source multilingual voice model, Voxtral, offers state-of-the-art accuracy and native semantic understanding in the open, at less than half the price of comparable APIs. This makes high-quality speech intelligence accessible and controllable at scale.
https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral
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