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[2602.11298] Voxtral Realtime
Summary
Voxtral Realtime presents a novel streaming automatic speech recognition model achieving offline transcription quality with sub-second latency, trained end-to-end for optimal audio-text alignment.
Why It Matters
This research is significant as it addresses the growing demand for real-time speech recognition systems that maintain high accuracy. By introducing a model that operates with minimal delay while supporting multiple languages, it opens avenues for applications in various fields, including customer service, accessibility, and real-time communication.
Key Takeaways
- Voxtral Realtime achieves offline transcription quality with sub-second latency.
- The model is trained end-to-end, ensuring better alignment of audio and text.
- It utilizes a new causal audio encoder and Ada RMS-Norm for improved performance.
- The model supports 13 languages, broadening its applicability.
- Voxtral Realtime's weights are released under the Apache 2.0 license, promoting open-source collaboration.
Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence arXiv:2602.11298 (cs) [Submitted on 11 Feb 2026 (v1), last revised 21 Feb 2026 (this version, v2)] Title:Voxtral Realtime Authors:Alexander H. Liu, Andy Ehrenberg, Andy Lo, Chen-Yo Sun, Guillaume Lample, Jean-Malo Delignon, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Patrick von Platen, Pavankumar Reddy Muddireddy, Rohin Arora, Sanchit Gandhi, Sandeep Subramanian, Soham Ghosh, Srijan Mishra, Abhinav Rastogi, Adrien Sadé, Alan Jeffares, Albert Jiang, Alexandre Cahill, Alexandre Gavaudan, Alexandre Sablayrolles, Amélie Héliou, Amos You, Andrew Bai, Angele Lenglemetz, Anmol Agarwal, Anton Eliseev, Antonia Calvi, Arjun Majumdar, Avi Sooriyarachchi, Baptiste Bout, Baptiste Rozière, Baudouin De Monicault, Benjamin Tibi, Charlotte Cronjäger, Clémence Lanfranchi, Connor Chen, Corentin Barreau, Corentin Sautier, Cyprien Courtot, Darius Dabert, Diego de las Casas, Elizaveta Demyanenko, Elliot Chane-Sane, Enguerrand Paquin, Etienne Goffinet, Fabien Niel, Faruk Ahmed, Federico Baldassarre, Gabrielle Berrada, Gaëtan Ecrepont, Gauthier Guinet, Genevieve Hayes, Georgii Novikov, Giada Pistilli, Guillaume Kunsch, Guillaume Martin, Guillaume Raille, Gunjan Dhanuka, Gunshi Gupta, Han Zhou, Harshil Shah, Hope McGovern, Hugo Thimonier, Indraneel Mukherjee, Irene Zhang, Jaeyoung Kim, Jan Ludziejewski, Jason Rute, Joachim Studnia, John Harvill, Jonas Amar, Joséphine Delas, Josselin Somerville Roberts, Julien Tauran, Karmesh Yadav, Kartik Khandelwal, Kilian Tep, Kush Jain, ...
