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      "Mistral's card gives an average FLEURS WER of 8.72% across 13 languages at a 480 ms delay, 12.60% at 160 ms and 6.73% at 2.4 s, against 5.90% for its offline Voxtral Mini Transcribe 2.0. These are the publisher's numbers, not our measurement (https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602)",
      "Trained end-to-end for streaming on the Delayed Streams Modeling framework, with delays sampled from 80 ms to 2.4 s and Ada RMS-Norm delay conditioning, per Mistral's technical report (https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11298)",
      "Mistral built realtime serving into vLLM with the vLLM team, a WebSocket /v1/realtime endpoint, and recommends vLLM",
      "The same model is on Mistral's API as voxtral-mini-transcribe-realtime-2602 at $0.006 a minute (https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-transcribe-2)"
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        "value": "A causal audio encoder trained from scratch (32 layers, hidden 1280, sliding window 750, about 970M parameters), an MLP adapter that downsamples by 4, and a decoder initialised from Ministral 3B (26 layers, hidden 3072, sliding window 8192, about 3.4B). 4,429,679,360 parameters by Hugging Face's safetensors count. One text token per 80 ms of audio"
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      {
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      {
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        "value": "Apache 2.0, named in the metadata and linked to apache.org from the card. No LICENSE file in the repository. The card adds one line, that the model must not be used to infringe or violate third parties' rights. The base, Ministral-3-3B-Base-2512, is also Apache 2.0 and ungated"
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        "value": "Temperature 0.0. A 480 ms delay, changed with transcription_delay_ms in tekken.json to a multiple of 80 ms up to 1,200, or 2,400. vLLM's default max-model-len of 131072 covers about 3 hours; one text token is 80 ms, so a 1 hour session needs at least 45,000. WebSockets for streaming sessions"
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        "value": "A single GPU with 16 GB or more for the BF16 weights, per the card, which also says it targets on-device use. Mistral Experimental's audio.cpp validation reports about 9 GB of VRAM peak for streaming at Q8_0"
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        "The files sit in Mistral's verified mistralai organisation, and Mistral's announcement links to them. Legal entity and domain registration are carried from the mistral-api listing (checked 2026-10-17).",
        "Nothing is hosted in this listing, so the Apache 2.0 licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored. The hosted model is mistral-voxtral-transcribe.",
        "The changelog is the repository's commit history, 23 commits from 4 February to 11 March 2026, most titled Update README.md.",
        "mistral.ai/.well-known/security.txt answered on 21 October 2026 with a security contact, an expiry of 5 May 2027 and a HackerOne submission policy.",
        "The card's ExecuTorch link, under mistral-labs, redirects to the unverified mistral-experimental organisation (Mistral Experimental), which also holds audio.cpp GGUF builds; counted as the publisher's linked organisation."
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