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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…

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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…

Having built with and tried every voice model over the last three years, real time and non-real time... this is off the charts compared to anything I've seen before.

And open weight too! So grateful for this.

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post #17

Italian represents, I believe, the most phonetically advanced human language. It has the right compromise among information density, understandability, and ability to speech much faster to compensate the redundancy. It's like if it had error correction built-in. Note that it's not just that it has the lower error rate, but is also underrepresented in most datasets.

I was honestly surprised to find it in the first place, because I assumed English to be at first place given the simpler grammar and the huge dataset available.

I agree with your belief, other languages have either lower density (e.g. German) or lower understandability (e.g. English)

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Do we know if this is better than Nvidia Parakeet V3? That has been my go-to model locally and it's hard to imagine there's something even better.

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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…

404 on https://mistralai-voxtral-mini-realtime.hf.space/gradio_api/... for me (which shows up in the UI as a little red error in the top right).

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post #17

Italian represents, I believe, the most phonetically advanced human language. It has the right compromise among information density, understandability, and ability to speech much faster to compensate the redundancy. It's like if it had error correction built-in. Note that it's not just that it has the lower error rate, but is also underrepresented in most datasets.

The only knowledge I have about how difficult Italian is comes from Inglourious Basterds.

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post #17

Italian represents, I believe, the most phonetically advanced human language. It has the right compromise among information density, understandability, and ability to speech much faster to compensate the redundancy. It's like if it had error correction built-in. Note that it's not just that it has the lower error rate, but is also underrepresented in most datasets.

This is largely due to the fact that modern Italian is a systematised language that emerged from a literary movement (whose most prominent representative is Alessandro Manzoni) to establish a uniform language for the Italian people. At the time of Italian unification in 1861, only about 2.5% of the population could speak this language.

The language itself was not invented for the purpose: it was the language spoken in Florence, than adopted by the literary movement and than selected as the national language.

It seems like the best tradeoff between information density and understandability actually comes from the deep latin roots of the language

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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…

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Pseudo related -- am I the only one uncomfortable using my voice with AI for the concern that once it is in the training model it is forever reproducible? As a non-public person it seems like a risk vector (albeit small),

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Native diarization, this looks exciting. edit: or not, no diarization in real-time. https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-26... ~9GB model.

The diarization is on Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2, not Voxtral Mini 4B.

Do you have experience with that model for diarization? Does it feel accurate, and what's its realtime factor on a typical GPU? Diarization has been the biggest thorn in my side for a long time..
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