Peak suverenity, Doesn't speak most of the European languages

How did they integrate Voxtral Large exactly? Does it output a special token to indicate it is asking for help, or is it running a command?

Anyway, if it is trained to decide when to think/ask for help that's good.

Too bad it's not open source though. But for large companies in Europe or elsewhere that want to control their data, this might be one of the best options now.

Although the frontier is true full duplex. Anyone know if there is anything that is open source for that other than MoshiRag or PersonaPlex?

Also did the CSM update some months back fix it? I never got a chance to test it.

I will wait for comparisons between Gemini Live and Voxtral.

because as much as I find Google models dumb, I consider image/voice/translation models to be good.

btw, great name, Voxtral.

Interesting. I've found the Voxtral series pretty nice actually. Good transcription and diarization which is the primary personal use-case where I want to turn podcast content into text since I read faster than I listen. The older ones were pretty cheap too and had the nice property that they don't hallucinate text when there's no speech.

I know the doomerism of robots takin R jobs get repetitive, but this seems like it would work very well in call centers. I get frustrated talking to AI call center agents, but that's often because they are less capable and prone to bad logic errors. To be fair, speaking to humans in call centers can be annoying too. If a call could be answered without waiting in a queue for 30 minutes by a competent AI agent, I think I would prefer that.

First of all, this is great for sovereignty.

Sad that the model is not open.

Finally, I have a bit of a grudge against the naming Mistral gives to their models. This is Voxtral 3, right? Instead of appending the variations at the end consistently, they just do this:

Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (batch), Voxtral Mini Transcribe Realtime 3, Voxtral Small Transcribe 3, Voxtral Speech 3 (batch and realtime, same API)

Why not Voxtral 3 Transcribe Mini (batch), Voxtral 3 Transcribe Realtime, Voxtral 3 Transcribe Small, Voxtral 3 Speech. Then it reads more like it's layered, like it should be.

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I like that a lot of ASR models now offer native context biasing capabilities. If I have enough volume, I would probably just self-host my model and do my own biasing but good enough to roll out custom solutions.

Excited to give this a try in my local Hermes setup. A poor conversation modality is the only thing that’s been bringing me back to the Claude app.

I'm a simple (french) man. I hear the accent, I upvote. Cheers Béatrice