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Re: Voxtral Transcribe 2

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Post by iagooar »

In English it is pretty good. But talk to it in Polish, and suddenly it thinks you speak Russian? Ukranian? Belarus? I would understand if an American company launched this, but for a company being so proud about their European roots, I think it should have better support for major European languages.

I tried English + Polish:

> All right, I'm not really sure if transcribing this makes a lot of sense. Maybe not. A цьому nie mówisz po polsku. A цьому nie mówisz po polsku, nie po ukrańsku.

Re: Voxtral Transcribe 2

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Post by mystifyingpoi »

iagooar wrote: post #81

In English it is pretty good. But talk to it in Polish, and suddenly it thinks you speak Russian? Ukranian? Belarus? I would understand if an American company launched this, but for a company being so proud about their European roots, I think it should have better support for major European languages. I tried English + Polish: > All right, I'm not really sure if transcribing this makes a lot of sense. Maybe not. A ць…

TBH ChatGPT does the same, when I mix Polish and English. Generally getting some cyrillic characters and it gets super confused.

Re: Voxtral Transcribe 2

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Post by tdb7893 »

iagooar wrote: post #81

In English it is pretty good. But talk to it in Polish, and suddenly it thinks you speak Russian? Ukranian? Belarus? I would understand if an American company launched this, but for a company being so proud about their European roots, I think it should have better support for major European languages. I tried English + Polish: > All right, I'm not really sure if transcribing this makes a lot of sense. Maybe not. A ць…

Yeah, it's too bad. Apparently it only performs well in certain languages: "The model is natively multilingual, achieving strong transcription performance in 13 languages, including English, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, French, Portuguese, Russian, German, Japanese, Korean, Italian, and Dutch"

Re: Voxtral Transcribe 2

#84

Post by testdelacc1 »

antirez wrote: post #75
nindalf wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love seeing people from other countries share their own folk tales about what makes their countries special and unique. I've seen it up close in my country and I always cringed when I heard my fellow countrymen came up with these stories. In my adulthood I'm reassured that it happens everywhere and I find it endearing. On the information density of languages: it is true that some languages have a more information d…

Different representations at the same bitrate may have features that make one a lot more resilient to errors. This thing about Italian, you fill find in any benchmark of vastly different AI transcribing models. You can find similar results also on the way LLMs mostly trained on English generalize usually very well with Italian. All this despite Italian accounting for marginal percentage of the training set. How do yo…

Where is this evidence you’ve cited for your claims?

Re: Voxtral Transcribe 2

#85

Post by jiehong »

It’s nice, but the previous version wasn’t actually that great compared to Parakeet for example.

We need better independent comparison to see how it performs against the latest Qwen3-ASR, and so on.

I can no longer take at face value the cherry picked comparisons of the companies showing off their new models.

For now, NVIDIA Parakeet v3 is the best for my use case, and runs very fast on my laptop or my phone.

Re: Voxtral Transcribe 2

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Post by keeganpoppen »

jaggederest wrote: post #43
simonw wrote: post #20

This demo is really impressive: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-Realtim... Don't be confused if it says "no microphone", the moment you click the record button it will request browser permission and then start working. I spoke fast and dropped in some jargon and it got it all right - I said this and it transcribed it exactly right, WebAssembly spelling included: > Can you tell me about RSS and At…

It can transcribe Eminem's Rap God fast sequence, really, really impressive.

what a great test hahah

Re: Voxtral Transcribe 2

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Post by keeganpoppen »

derefr wrote: post #58
pyprism wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, that’s weird. I tried Bengali, but the text transcribed into Hindi!I know there are some similar words in these languages, but I used pure Bengali that is not similar to Hindi.

Well, on the linked page, it mentions "strong transcription performance in 13 languages, including [...] Hindi" but with no mention of Bengali. It probably doesn't know a lick of Bengali, and is just trying to snap your words into the closest language it does know.

it must have some exposure to bengali— just not enough for them to advertise it. otherwise it would have a damn hard time.

Re: Voxtral Transcribe 2

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Post by fph »

Is there an open source Android keyboard that would support it? Everything I find is based on Whisper, which is from 2022. Ages ago given how fast AI is evolving.

Re: Voxtral Transcribe 2

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Post by nodja »

jiehong wrote: post #85

It’s nice, but the previous version wasn’t actually that great compared to Parakeet for example. We need better independent comparison to see how it performs against the latest Qwen3-ASR, and so on. I can no longer take at face value the cherry picked comparisons of the companies showing off their new models. For now, NVIDIA Parakeet v3 is the best for my use case, and runs very fast on my laptop or my phone.

There is https://huggingface.co/spaces/hf-audio/open_asr_leaderboard but it hasn't been updated for half a year.
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