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Voxtral Transcribe 2

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Post by atoav »

whimblepop wrote: post #238
atoav wrote: post #231

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you check if your mic even works in principle? E.g. using https://www.onlinemictest.com/ If you don't get sound there it won't work anywhere. A surprising number of problems like these can be solved by selecting the correct audio input source (provided your computer shows more than one).

Yep. Mic works fine. My mic even works on the test page! What doesn't work is any of the transcription functionality. :(

I just bit the bullet and did it via python and the api.

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Post by Curiositry »

tgrowazay wrote: post #214
mdrzn wrote: post #9

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Is it 0.003 per minute of audio uploaded, or "compute minute"? For example fal.ai has a Whisper API endpoint priced at "$0.00125 per compute second" which (at 10-25x realtime) is EXTREMELY cheaper than all the competitors.

Both AWS and Mistral prices above are per minute of input audio.

If Voxtral can process rapid speech as well as it claims to, an obvious cost optimization would be to speed up normal laconic speech to the maximum speed the model can handle accurately.

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Post by k9294 »

numbers wrote: post #107

does anyone know if there's any desktop tools I can use this transcription model with? e.g. something where like Wisper Flow/WillowVoice but with custom model selection

Try https://ottex.ai/

I recently added support for Mistral provider, model is actually a very good one, I personally switched to it as my default model.

p.s. the app is free for personal user, has support for both local models and BYOK with OpenRouter, Groq, Mistral, Fireworks, and more coming soon.

Re: Voxtral Transcribe 2

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Post by k9294 »

_blackhawk_ wrote: post #193

Cannot wait to try it on Spokenly

Hey, I would really appreciate if you will try https://ottex.ai

I'm working on a Wispr/Spokenly competitor. It's free without any paywalled features, supports local models and bunch of API providers including Mistral.

btw, the model name to pick is `voxtral-mini-latest:transcribe`, I personally switched to it as my main default fast model - it's really good.

Re: Voxtral Transcribe 2

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Post by k9294 »

sheepscreek wrote: post #71
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…

I’ve been using AquaVoice for real-time transcription for a while now, and it has become a core part of my workflow. It gets everything, jargon, capitalization, everything. Now I’m looking forward to doing that with 100% local inference!

Hey, I would really appreciate if you would try https://ottex.ai

I'm working on a Wispr/Spokenly competitor. It's free without any paywalled features, supports local models and a bunch of API providers including Mistral.

For local models ottex has - parakeet V3, Whisper, GLM-ASR nano, Qwen3-ASR (don't have voxtral yet though, looking into it).

btw, you can try new voxtral model via API (the model name to pick is `voxtral-mini-latest:transcribe`), I personally switched to it as my main default fast model - it's really good.

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