{"slug": "voxtral-transcribe", "name": "Voxtral Transcribe", "category": "ai", "category_name": "AI models and assistants", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 9, "warners": 1, "score": 2.797, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2026-02-04", "latest": "2026-03-01", "why": "Voxtral Transcript 2 is already extremely impressive", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 3, "compare": 2, "warn": 1}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Voxtral Transcript 2 is already extremely impressive", "kind": "", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Voxtral Transcribe 2", "Voxtral Transcribe"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 755319954, "item_id": 47207497, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47207497", "by": "SyneRyder", "date": "2026-03-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use their Voxtral Transcribe 2, that one has been useful.", "excerpt": "Having tried the Mistral Vibe harness that was supposedly designed for Devstral, that thing is abysmal. I feel sorry for whatever they did to that model, it didn't deserve it. The thing I most noticed was asking it for help with configuring local MCP servers in Mistral Vibe - something it supports, it literally shows how many MCP servers are connected on the startup screen - it then begins scanning my local machine f", "context": "", "use_case": "Transcription", "switched_from": "", "story": "Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers"}, {"id": 750277248, "item_id": 46892328, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46892328", "by": "ethmarks", "date": "2026-02-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Voxtral Transcript 2 is already extremely impressive", "excerpt": "They've already done the inverse and trimmed non-coding abilities from their language model: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2-codex/. There's already precedent for creating domain-specific models. I think it's nice to have specialized models for specific tasks that don't try to be generalists. Voxtral Transcript 2 is already extremely impressive, so imagine how much better it could be if it specialized in", "context": "", "use_case": "Speech transcription", "switched_from": "", "story": "Voxtral Transcribe 2"}, {"id": 750203952, "item_id": 46887747, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46887747", "by": "simonw", "date": "2026-02-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This demo is really impressive", "excerpt": "This demo is really impressive: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-Realtime 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 Atom", "context": "", "use_case": "Speech transcription", "switched_from": "", "story": "Voxtral Transcribe 2"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 750326656, "item_id": 46895416, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46895416", "by": "whimblepop", "date": "2026-02-04", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it still doesn't work for me", "excerpt": "I can see the waveform but it still doesn't work for me. Switched to Edge, disabled all adblocking and privacy extensions, built-in tracking prevention, and \"enhanced site security\" (whatever that is), and still no dice. I'd love to try it and be impressed, but it seems impossible. :(", "context": "", "use_case": "Audio transcription", "switched_from": "", "story": "Voxtral Transcribe 2"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["transcription", "speech transcription", "audio transcription", "realtime diarization"], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886735", "title": "Voxtral Transcribe 2", "mentions": 8}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47199781", "title": "Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {"neutral": 3, "compare": 2, "recommend": 2, "warn": 1}, "2026-03": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 755319954, "item_id": 47207497, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47207497", "by": "SyneRyder", "date": "2026-03-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use their Voxtral Transcribe 2, that one has been useful.", "excerpt": "Having tried the Mistral Vibe harness that was supposedly designed for Devstral, that thing is abysmal. I feel sorry for whatever they did to that model, it didn't deserve it. The thing I most noticed was asking it for help with configuring local MCP servers in Mistral Vibe - something it supports, it literally shows how many MCP servers are connected on the startup screen - it then begins scanning my local machine f", "context": "", "use_case": "Transcription", "switched_from": "", "story": "Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers"}, {"id": 750341155, "item_id": 46896322, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46896322", "by": "barrell", "date": "2026-02-04", "stance": "compare", "quote": "I'm very excited now to try integrating Voxtral Transcribe. The language support is a little lacking", "excerpt": "Very happy with all the mistral work. I feel like I'm always one release behind theirs. Last time they released Mistral 3 I commented saying how excited I was to try it out [1] Well, I'm happy to report I integrated the new Mistral 3 and have been truly astounded by the results. I still am not a big fan of the model wrt factual information - it seems to be especially confident and especially wrong if left to it's own", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Voxtral Transcribe 2"}, {"id": 750326656, "item_id": 46895416, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46895416", "by": "whimblepop", "date": "2026-02-04", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it still doesn't work for me", "excerpt": "I can see the waveform but it still doesn't work for me. Switched to Edge, disabled all adblocking and privacy extensions, built-in tracking prevention, and \"enhanced site security\" (whatever that is), and still no dice. I'd love to try it and be impressed, but it seems impossible. :(", "context": "", "use_case": "Audio transcription", "switched_from": "", "story": "Voxtral Transcribe 2"}, {"id": 750286560, "item_id": 46892910, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46892910", "by": "sbinnee", "date": "2026-02-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "it is open source and surely I will give it a try.", "excerpt": "3 hours for a single request sounds nice to me. Although the graph suggests that it\u2019s not going to perform as good as openai model I have been using, it is open source and surely I will give it a try.", "context": "", "use_case": "transcription", "switched_from": "", "story": "Voxtral Transcribe 2"}, {"id": 750277248, "item_id": 46892328, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46892328", "by": "ethmarks", "date": "2026-02-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Voxtral Transcript 2 is already extremely impressive", "excerpt": "They've already done the inverse and trimmed non-coding abilities from their language model: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2-codex/. There's already precedent for creating domain-specific models. I think it's nice to have specialized models for specific tasks that don't try to be generalists. Voxtral Transcript 2 is already extremely impressive, so imagine how much better it could be if it specialized in", "context": "", "use_case": "Speech transcription", "switched_from": "", "story": "Voxtral Transcribe 2"}, {"id": 750208288, "item_id": 46888018, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46888018", "by": "satvikpendem", "date": "2026-02-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Looks like this model doesn't do realtime diarization", "excerpt": "Looks like this model doesn't do realtime diarization, what model should I use if I want that? So far I've only seen paid models do diarization well. I heard about Nvidia NeMo but haven't tried that or even where to try it out.", "context": "", "use_case": "realtime diarization", "switched_from": "", "story": "Voxtral Transcribe 2"}, {"id": 750203952, "item_id": 46887747, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46887747", "by": "simonw", "date": "2026-02-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This demo is really impressive", "excerpt": "This demo is really impressive: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-Realtime 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 Atom", "context": "", "use_case": "Speech transcription", "switched_from": "", "story": "Voxtral Transcribe 2"}, {"id": 750200720, "item_id": 46887545, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46887545", "by": "dmix", "date": "2026-02-04", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Amazons transcription service is $0.024 per minute, pretty big difference", "excerpt": "> At approximately 4% word error rate on FLEURS and $0.003/min Amazons transcription service is $0.024 per minute, pretty big difference https://aws.amazon.com/transcribe/pricing/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Voxtral Transcribe 2"}, {"id": 750198576, "item_id": 46887411, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46887411", "by": "ReadEvalPost", "date": "2026-02-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "You can try it on HF", "excerpt": "You can try it on HF: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-Realtime", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Voxtral Transcribe 2"}]}