| --- |
| library_name: vllm |
| language: |
| - en |
| - fr |
| - es |
| - de |
| - ru |
| - zh |
| - ja |
| - it |
| - pt |
| - nl |
| - ar |
| - hi |
| - ko |
| license: apache-2.0 |
| inference: false |
| base_model: |
| - mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Base-2512 |
| extra_gated_description: >- |
| If you want to learn more about how we process your personal data, please read |
| our <a href="https://mistral.ai/terms/">Privacy Policy</a>. |
| pipeline_tag: automatic-speech-recognition |
| tags: |
| - mistral-common |
| --- |
| |
| # Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602 |
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| Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602 is a **multilingual, realtime speech-transcription model** and among the first open-source solutions to achieve accuracy comparable to offline systems with a delay of **<500ms**. |
| It supports **13 languages** and outperforms existing open-source baselines across a range of tasks, making it ideal for applications like voice assistants and live subtitling. |
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| Built with a **natively streaming architecture** and a custom causal audio encoder - it allows configurable transcription delays (240ms to 2.4s), enabling users to balance **latency and accuracy** based on their needs. |
| At a **480ms delay**, it matches the performance of leading offline open-source transcription models, as well as realtime APIs. |
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| As a **4B-parameter model**, is optimized for **on-device deployment**, requiring minimal hardware resources. |
| It runs in realtime with on devices minimal hardware with throughput exceeding 12.5 tokens/second. |
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| This model is released in **BF16** under the **Apache-2 license**, ensuring flexibility for both research and commercial use. |
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| For more details, see our: |
| - [Blog post](https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-transcribe-2) |
| - [Demo](https://huggingface.co/spaces/mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-Realtime) |
| - [Technical report](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11298) |
| - [vLLM's blog on streaming input](https://blog.vllm.ai/2026/01/31/streaming-realtime.html) |
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|
| ## Key Features |
| Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime consists of two main architectural components: |
| - **≈3.4B Language Model** |
| - **≈970M Audio Encoder** |
| - The audio encoder was trained from scratch with causal attention enabling streaming capability |
| - Both the audio encoder as well as the LLM backbone use sliding window attention allowing for "infinite" streaming |
| - For more details, refer to the [technical report](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11298) |
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| The Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime model offers the following capabilities: |
| - **High-Quality Transcription**: Transcribe audio to text with confidence. |
| - **Multilingual**: Supports dozens of languages, making it perfect for multilingual transcription tasks. |
| - **Real-Time**: Fast streaming ASR model, enabling real-time transcription use cases. |
| - **Configurable Transcription Delays**: Customize the transcription delay to balance quality and latency, from 80ms to 2.4s. |
|
|
| ### Use Cases |
| **Real-Time Transcription Purposes:** |
| - Private meeting transcriptions |
| - Live subtitle creation |
| - Real-time assistants with speech understanding |
| - And more |
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| Bringing real-time transcription capabilities to all. |
|
|
| ### Recommended Settings |
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| We recommend deploying with the following best practices: |
| - Always set the temperature to 0.0 |
| - A single text-token is worth 80ms. Hence, make sure to set your `--max-model-len` accordingly. To live-record a 1h meeting, you need to set `--max-model-len >= 3600 / 0.8 = 45000`. |
| In theory, you should be able to record with no limit; in practice, pre-allocations of RoPE parameters among other things limits `--max-model-len`. |
| For the best user experience, we recommend to simply instantiate vLLM with the default parameters which will automatically set a maximum model length of 131072 (~ca. 3h). |
| - We strongly recommend using websockets to set up audio streaming sessions. For more info on how to do so, check [Usage](#usage). |
| - We recommend using a delay of 480ms as we found it to be the sweet spot of performance and low latency. If, however, you want to adapt the delay, you can change the `"transcription_delay_ms": 480` parameter |
| in the [tekken.json](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602/blob/main/params.json) file to any multiple of 80ms between 80 and 1200, as well as 2400 as a standalone value. |
|
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| ## Benchmark Results |
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| We compare Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime to similar models - both offline models and realtime. |
| Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime is competitive to leading offline models and shows significant gains over existing open-source realtime solutions. |
|
|
| ### Fleurs |
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| | Model | Delay | AVG | Arabic | German | English | Spanish | French | Hindi | Italian | Dutch | Portuguese | Chinese | Japanese | Korean | Russian | |
| |-----------------------------------------|-------------|---------|--------|--------|---------|---------|--------|--------|---------|-------|------------|---------|----------|--------|---------| |
| | Voxtral Mini Transcribe 2.0 | Offline | 5.90% | 13.54% | 3.54% | 3.32% | 2.63% | 4.32% | 10.33% | 2.17% | 4.78% | 3.56% | 7.30% | 4.14% | 12.29% | 4.75% | |
| | **Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602** | 480 ms | 8.72% | 22.53% | 6.19% | 4.90% | 3.31% | 6.42% | 12.88% | 3.27% | 7.07% | 5.03% | 10.45% | 9.59% | 15.74% | 6.02% | |
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| | | 160 ms | 12.60% | 24.33% | 9.50% | 6.46% | 5.34% | 9.75% | 15.28% | 5.59% | 11.39%| 10.01% | 17.67% | 19.17% | 19.81% | 9.53% | |
| | | 240 ms | 10.80% | 23.95% | 8.15% | 5.91% | 4.59% | 8.00% | 14.26% | 4.41% | 9.23% | 7.51% | 13.84% | 15.17% | 17.56% | 7.87% | |
| | | 960 ms | 7.70% | 20.32% | 4.87% | 4.34% | 2.98% | 5.68% | 11.82% | 2.46% | 6.76% | 4.57% | 8.99% | 6.80% | 14.90% | 5.56% | |
| | | 2400 ms | 6.73% | 14.71% | 4.15% | 4.05% | 2.71% | 5.23% | 10.73% | 2.37% | 5.91% | 3.93% | 8.48% | 5.50% | 14.30% | 5.41% | |
|
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| ### Long-form English |
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| | Model | Delay | Meanwhile (<10m) | E-21 (<10m) | E-22 (<10m) | TEDLIUM (<20m) | |
| | ---------------------------------- | ------ | ---------------- | ----------- | ----------- | -------------- | |
| | Voxtral Mini Transcribe 2.0 | Offline| 4.08% | 9.81% | 11.69% | 2.86% | |
| | **Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602** | 480ms | 5.05% | 10.23% | 12.30% | 3.17% | |
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| ### Short-form English |
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| | Model | Delay | CHiME-4 | GigaSpeech 2k Subset | AMI IHM | SwitchBoard | CHiME-4 SP | GISpeech 2k Subset | |
| | ---------------------------------- | ------ | ------- | -------------------- | ------- | ----------- | ---------- | ------------------ | |
| | Voxtral Mini Transcribe 2.0 | Offline | 10.39% | 6.81% | 14.43% | 11.54% | 10.42% | 1.74% | |
| | **Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602** | 480ms | 10.50% | 7.35% | 15.05% | 11.65% | 12.41% | 1.73% | |
|
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| ## Usage |
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| The model can also be deployed with the following libraries: |
| - [`vllm (recommended)`](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm): See [here](#vllm-recommended) |
| - [`transformers`](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers): See [here](#transformers) |
| - *Community Contributions*: See [here](#community-contributions-untested) |
|
|
| ### vLLM (recommended) |
|
|
| > [!Tip] |
| > We've worked hand-in-hand with the vLLM team to have production-grade support for Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602 with vLLM. |
| > Special thanks goes out to [Joshua Deng](https://github.com/joshuadeng), [Yu Luo](https://github.com/ErickLuo90), [Chen Zhang](https://github.com/heheda12345), [Nick Hill](https://github.com/njhill), [Nicolò Lucchesi](https://github.com/NickLucche), [Roger Wang](https://github.com/ywang96), and [Cyrus Leung](https://github.com/DarkLight1337) |
| > for the amazing work and help on building a production-ready audio streaming and realtime system in vLLM. |
|
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| > [!Warning] |
| > Due to its novel architecture, Voxtral Realtime is currently only support in vLLM. We very much welcome community contributions |
| > to add the architecture to [Transformers](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers) and [Llama.cpp](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp). |
|
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| We've worked hand-in-hand with the vLLM team to have production-grade support for Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602 with vLLM. |
| [vLLM](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm)'s [new Realtime API](https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/serving/openai_compatible_server/?h=realtime#realtime-api) is perfectly suited to |
| run audio streaming sessions with the model. |
|
|
| #### Installation |
|
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| Make sure to install [vllm](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm) from the nightly pypi package. |
| See [here](https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/getting_started/installation/) for a full installation guide. |
|
|
| ``` |
| uv pip install -U vllm \ |
| --torch-backend=auto \ |
| --extra-index-url https://wheels.vllm.ai/nightly # add variant subdirectory here if needed |
| ``` |
|
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| Doing so should automatically install [`mistral_common >= 1.9.0`](https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-common/releases/tag/v1.9.0). |
|
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| To check: |
| ``` |
| python -c "import mistral_common; print(mistral_common.__version__)" |
| ``` |
|
|
| You can also make use of a ready-to-go [docker image](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/main/docker/Dockerfile) or on the [docker hub](https://hub.docker.com/layers/vllm/vllm-openai/nightly/images/sha256-6ae33f5001ab9d32346ce2c82c660fe57021c4f0c162ed0c60b843319829b810). |
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| Make sure to also install all required audio processing libraries: |
|
|
| ``` |
| uv pip install soxr librosa soundfile |
| ``` |
|
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| Also we recommend using Transformers v5 as v4 can clutter the terminal with unnecessary warnings (see [here](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/34642)) |
|
|
| ``` |
| uv pip install --upgrade transformers |
| ``` |
|
|
| #### Serve |
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| Due to size and the BF16 format of the weights - `Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602` can run on a single GPU with >= 16GB memory. |
|
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| The model can be launched in both "eager" mode: |
|
|
| ```bash |
| VLLM_DISABLE_COMPILE_CACHE=1 vllm serve mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602 --compilation_config '{"cudagraph_mode": "PIECEWISE"}' |
| ``` |
|
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| Additional flags: |
| * You can set `--max-num-batched-tokens` to balance throughput and latency, higher means higher throughput but higher latency. |
| * You can reduce the default `--max-model-len` to allocate less memory for the pre-computed RoPE frequencies, |
| if you are certain that you won't have to transcribe for more than X hours. By default the model uses a `--max-model-len` of 131072 (> 3h). |
|
|
| #### Client |
|
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| After serving `vllm`, you should see that the model is compatible with `vllm's` new realtime endpoint: |
| ``` |
| ... |
| (APIServer pid=3246965) INFO 02-03 17:04:43 [launcher.py:58] Route: /v1/realtime, Endpoint: realtime_endpoint |
| ... |
| ``` |
|
|
| We have added two simple example files that allow you to: |
| - [Stream audio files](https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/examples/online_serving/openai_realtime_client/?h=realtime#openai-realtime-client) |
| - [Simple gradio live transcription demo](https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/examples/online_serving/openai_realtime_microphone_client/#openai-realtime-microphone-client) |
|
|
| [](https://huggingface.co/spaces/mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-Realtime) |
|
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| **To try out a demo, click [here](https://huggingface.co/spaces/mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-Realtime)** |
|
|
| ### Transformers |
|
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| Starting with `transformers >= 5.2.0`, you can run Voxtral Realtime natively in Transformers! |
|
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| For more details, refer to the [Transformers documentation](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/model_doc/voxtral_realtime). |
|
|
| #### Installation |
|
|
| Install Transformers: |
|
|
| ```bash |
| pip install --upgrade transformers |
| ``` |
|
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| Make sure to have `mistral-common` installed with audio dependencies: |
|
|
| ```bash |
| pip install --upgrade "mistral-common[audio]" |
| ``` |
|
|
| #### Usage |
|
|
| ```python |
| from transformers import VoxtralRealtimeForConditionalGeneration, AutoProcessor |
| from mistral_common.tokens.tokenizers.audio import Audio |
| from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download |
| |
| repo_id = "mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602" |
| |
| processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(repo_id) |
| model = VoxtralRealtimeForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(repo_id, device_map="auto") |
| |
| repo_id = "patrickvonplaten/audio_samples" |
| audio_file = hf_hub_download(repo_id=repo_id, filename="bcn_weather.mp3", repo_type="dataset") |
| |
| audio = Audio.from_file(audio_file, strict=False) |
| audio.resample(processor.feature_extractor.sampling_rate) |
| |
| inputs = processor(audio.audio_array, return_tensors="pt") |
| inputs = inputs.to(model.device, dtype=model.dtype) |
| |
| outputs = model.generate(**inputs) |
| decoded_outputs = processor.batch_decode(outputs, skip_special_tokens=True) |
| |
| print(decoded_outputs[0]) |
| ``` |
|
|
| ### Community Contributions (Untested) |
|
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| Voxtral Realtime integrations in: |
| - [Executorch](https://github.com/pytorch/executorch/tree/main/examples/models/voxtral_realtime) - thanks [Mergen Nachin](https://github.com/mergennachin) |
| - [Pure C](https://github.com/antirez/voxtral.c) - thanks [Salvatore Sanfilippo](https://github.com/antirez) |
| - [mlx-audio framework](https://github.com/Blaizzy/mlx-audio) - thanks [Shreyas Karnik](https://github.com/shreyaskarnik) |
| - [MLX](https://github.com/awni/voxmlx) - thanks [Awni Hannun](https://github.com/awni) |
| - [Rust](https://github.com/TrevorS/voxtral-mini-realtime-rs) - thanks [TrevorS](https://github.com/TrevorS) |
|
|
| ## License |
|
|
| This model is licensed under the [Apache 2.0 License](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt). |
|
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| *You must not use this model in a manner that infringes, misappropriates, or otherwise violates any third party’s rights, including intellectual property rights.* |
