Mistral drops Voxtral to challenge Whisper with open speech AI
Mistral just released Voxtral, open-sourcing two state-of-the-art speech understanding models under Apache 2.0 in 24B and 3B sizes. With a 32k context window handling up to 40 minutes of audio, it outperforms Whisper large-v3, supports direct function calling straight from voice, and offers an API at less than half the price of competitors.