Voxtral 3

Voxtral 3, from mistral.ai, is a real-time ASR preview system that supports various transcription models including Voxtral Small Transcribe 3, Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3, and GPT-4o Transcribe Enhanced. It also integrates with other ASR technologies like Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, Universal-3.5 Pro, and Whisper large-v3. The system was evaluated using 237 prompts with two voices per system (Sarah and James) on a 1 to 5 scale, judged by gemini-3.8-flash, with pricing based on vendor pages and generated on 2026-10-20.

This report uniquely provides a comprehensive comparison of Voxtral 3 against a wide array of ASR systems, including Gemini 3.5, Universal-3.5 Pro, and GPT-4o, unlike typical single-system announcements.