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Mistral says Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 outperforms Whisper, Scribe v2 and Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, and reports a diarization cpWER of 18.4%, the lowest among the systems it compared; these are Mistral's own evaluations.

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It outperforms Whisper, Scribe v2 and Gemini 3.5 Transcribe. ... Diarization Concatenated Minimum Permutation WER – lower is better ... 18.4% ... Voxtral Small Transcribe 3

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Voxtral 3
Mistral AI · 2026-10-20

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Mistral releases Voxtral 3 speech models and a voice agent SDK 26 Oct 2026

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“Mistral says Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 outperforms Whisper, Scribe v2 and Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, and reports a diarization cpWER of 18.4%, the lowest among the systems it compared; these are Mistral's own evaluations.” ai notis, checked 26 Oct 2026. Source: Voxtral 3 (Mistral AI). https://ainotis.com/c/2902

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ai notis. (2026, October 26). Mistral says Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 outperforms Whisper, Scribe v2 and Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, and reports a diarization cpWER of 18.4%, the lowest among the systems it compared; these are Mistral's own evaluations [Checked claim 2902]. ai notis. https://ainotis.com/c/2902

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