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Re: Voxtral Transcribe 2

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Post by lm28469 »

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…

> 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.

Try sticking to the supported languages

Re: Voxtral Transcribe 2

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Post by codethief »

skykooler wrote: post #108
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…

Doesn't seem to work for me - tried in both Firefox and Chromium and I can see the waveform when I talk but the transcription just shows "Awaiting audio input".

Same here. In Chromium I don't even see the waveform.

Re: Voxtral Transcribe 2

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Post by ricardonunez »

tdb7893 wrote: post #83
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"

It did great English and Spanish, it didn't switch to Portuguese, french nor German, maybe struggle with my accent.

Re: Voxtral Transcribe 2

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gwerbret wrote: post #76

I really wish those offering speech-to-text models provided transcription benchmarks specific to particular fields of endeavor. I imagine performance would vary wildly when using jargon peculiar to software development, medicine, physics, and law, as compared to everyday speech. Considering that "enterprise" use is often specialized or sub-specialized, it seems like they're leaving money on Dragon's table by not cate…

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Re: Voxtral Transcribe 2

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Post by fragmede »

codethief wrote: post #112
skykooler wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't seem to work for me - tried in both Firefox and Chromium and I can see the waveform when I talk but the transcription just shows "Awaiting audio input".

Same here. In Chromium I don't even see the waveform.

I had to turn off ad-block to get it to work.

Re: Voxtral Transcribe 2

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Post by starkgoose »

skykooler wrote: post #108
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…

Doesn't seem to work for me - tried in both Firefox and Chromium and I can see the waveform when I talk but the transcription just shows "Awaiting audio input".

Try disabling CSP for the page

Re: Voxtral Transcribe 2

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Post by kergonath »

keeganpoppen wrote: post #91
janalsncm wrote: post #53

I noticed that this model is multilingual and understands 14 languages. For many use cases, we probably only need a single language, and the extra 13 are simply adding extra latency. I believe there will be a trend in the coming years of trimming the fat off of these jack of all trades models. https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-acl.87/

uhhh i cast doubt on multi-language support as affecting latency. model size, maybe, but what is the mechanism for making latency worse? i think of model latency as O(log(model size))… but i am open to being wrong / that being a not-good mental model / educated guess.

Even model size, it’s modest. There is a lot of machinery that is going to be common for all languages. You don’t multiply model size by 2 when you double the number of supported languages.

Re: Voxtral Transcribe 2

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Post by overfeed »

yko wrote: post #104
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…

That's a mix of Polish and Ukrainian in the transcript. Now, if I try speaking Ukrainian, I'm getting transcript in Russian every time. That's upsetting.

Oh no! The model won't translate to an unsupported language, and incorrectly reverts to one that it was explicitly trained on.

The base likely was pretrained on days that included Polish and Ukrainian. You shouldn't be surprised to learn it doesn't perform great on languages it wasn't trained on, or perhaps had the highest share of training data.

Re: Voxtral Transcribe 2

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Post by scotty79 »

ricardonunez wrote: post #113
tdb7893 wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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"

It did great English and Spanish, it didn't switch to Portuguese, french nor German, maybe struggle with my accent.

Try to warn it you are going to switch language to Portugese. Worked for me.
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