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Voxtral 3

Mistral 20 October 2026, 12:00

Voxtral 3 was released by Mistral as a voice agent SDK and new speech models for real-time, multi-step spoken conversations across many languages. Voxtral Mini TTS 3 is priced at $13 per 1M characters. It adds end-to-end streaming with 50+ language transcription and 35+ language, emotion-adaptive voice synthesis, plus sovereign deployment options via Mistral’s EU API or self-hosting.

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Voxtral 3: Mistral's voice agent SDK for real-time speech in 50+ languages — accurate transcription, emotional TTS, deep tool use. EU-hosted or self-deployed.

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