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Both models support 13 languages, including German, English, and Chinese. New functionalities encompass speaker diarization, word-level timestamps, and support for recordings up to three hours in length. Voxtral Realtime is accessible as an open-weight version on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0 and via API, while Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2 is available exclusively through Le Chat, the Mistral API, and the Playground. Mistral initially released the first-generation Voxtral version in July 2025.
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