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Voxtral Mini TTS

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Summary

Voxtral Mini TTS combines text-to-speech with zero-shot voice cloning. A voice sample is enough for the voice prompt, and Mistral says no transcript of that sample is required. The model supports nine languages and produces first audio in about 90 ms during streaming according to the provider. This combination defines the endpoint for voices that need to start quickly from a clone.

Mistral lists the Voxtral Mini TTS weights under CC BY-NC 4.0. The license applies whether the checkpoint runs locally or through the API. API access and local weights are separate access paths, but neither bypasses the non-commercial terms.

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Measurements without matching peer values

These measurements have no matching peer values under the same test conditions. Their original values and sources remain available here.

Voxtral TTS paper human preference win rate versus ElevenLabs Flash v2.5 (zero-shot voice cloning) (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
68.4
Score
68.4
Metric
Micro-average human preference win rate across nine languages
Unit
%
Benchmark version
Voxtral TTS paper arXiv:2603.25551v2, Table 5
Category
audio
Direction
Higher is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Mistral AI, Voxtral TTS paper
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-16
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact open-weight checkpoint mistralai/Voxtral-4B-TTS-2603. The paper's Table 5 reports the micro-average human preference win rate against ElevenLabs Flash v2.5 in zero-shot voice cloning across Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. The study compares generated audio with reference clips on likeness, naturalness, and expressivity. The paper does not report the aggregate vote denominator or a confidence interval.
Context
This is a Mistral-authored, vendor-reported human preference result for zero-shot voice cloning, not an independent MOS or a general TTS preference score. The paper gives study setup details but no total scored pairwise comparisons, vote denominator, or confidence interval, so this record omits a sample count and confidence bounds.
Source Mistral AI, Voxtral TTS paper
Voxtral TTS Table 3 MiniMax-TTS Arabic WER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
2.68
Score
2.68
Metric
Word error rate (WER) of generated speech, measured by Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2
Unit
%
Benchmark version
Voxtral TTS paper arXiv:2603.25551v2, Table 3, MiniMax-TTS Arabic
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Mistral AI, Voxtral TTS paper
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-16
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact released checkpoint mistralai/Voxtral-4B-TTS-2603; Voxtral column in Table 3 for MiniMax-TTS Arabic. The paper measures WER with Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2. Table 3's WER and UTMOS values match Table 6's DPO values for the same task; the paper says DPO changes speaker similarity by at most 0.01.
Context
Mistral-authored automatic result; WER is transcribed by Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2, so it is not an independent transcription audit. The paper does not report the scored sample count, run date, or confidence interval for this row.
Source Mistral AI, Voxtral TTS paper
Voxtral TTS Table 3 MiniMax-TTS German WER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
0.83
Score
0.83
Metric
Word error rate (WER) of generated speech, measured by Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2
Unit
%
Benchmark version
Voxtral TTS paper arXiv:2603.25551v2, Table 3, MiniMax-TTS German
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Mistral AI, Voxtral TTS paper
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-16
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact released checkpoint mistralai/Voxtral-4B-TTS-2603; Voxtral column in Table 3 for MiniMax-TTS German. The paper measures WER with Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2. Table 3's WER and UTMOS values match Table 6's DPO values for the same task; the paper says DPO changes speaker similarity by at most 0.01.
Context
Mistral-authored automatic result; WER is transcribed by Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2, so it is not an independent transcription audit. The paper does not report the scored sample count, run date, or confidence interval for this row.
Source Mistral AI, Voxtral TTS paper
Voxtral TTS Table 3 MiniMax-TTS English WER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
0.63
Score
0.63
Metric
Word error rate (WER) of generated speech, measured by Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2
Unit
%
Benchmark version
Voxtral TTS paper arXiv:2603.25551v2, Table 3, MiniMax-TTS English
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Mistral AI, Voxtral TTS paper
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-16
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact released checkpoint mistralai/Voxtral-4B-TTS-2603; Voxtral column in Table 3 for MiniMax-TTS English. The paper measures WER with Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2. Table 3's WER and UTMOS values match Table 6's DPO values for the same task; the paper says DPO changes speaker similarity by at most 0.01.
Context
Mistral-authored automatic result; WER is transcribed by Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2, so it is not an independent transcription audit. The paper does not report the scored sample count, run date, or confidence interval for this row.
Source Mistral AI, Voxtral TTS paper
Voxtral TTS Table 3 MiniMax-TTS Spanish WER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
0.51
Score
0.51
Metric
Word error rate (WER) of generated speech, measured by Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2
Unit
%
Benchmark version
Voxtral TTS paper arXiv:2603.25551v2, Table 3, MiniMax-TTS Spanish
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Mistral AI, Voxtral TTS paper
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-16
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact released checkpoint mistralai/Voxtral-4B-TTS-2603; Voxtral column in Table 3 for MiniMax-TTS Spanish. The paper measures WER with Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2. Table 3's WER and UTMOS values match Table 6's DPO values for the same task; the paper says DPO changes speaker similarity by at most 0.01.
Context
Mistral-authored automatic result; WER is transcribed by Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2, so it is not an independent transcription audit. The paper does not report the scored sample count, run date, or confidence interval for this row.
Source Mistral AI, Voxtral TTS paper
Voxtral TTS Table 3 MiniMax-TTS French WER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
3.22
Score
3.22
Metric
Word error rate (WER) of generated speech, measured by Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2
Unit
%
Benchmark version
Voxtral TTS paper arXiv:2603.25551v2, Table 3, MiniMax-TTS French
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Mistral AI, Voxtral TTS paper
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-16
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact released checkpoint mistralai/Voxtral-4B-TTS-2603; Voxtral column in Table 3 for MiniMax-TTS French. The paper measures WER with Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2. Table 3's WER and UTMOS values match Table 6's DPO values for the same task; the paper says DPO changes speaker similarity by at most 0.01.
Context
Mistral-authored automatic result; WER is transcribed by Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2, so it is not an independent transcription audit. The paper does not report the scored sample count, run date, or confidence interval for this row.
Source Mistral AI, Voxtral TTS paper
Voxtral TTS Table 3 MiniMax-TTS Hindi WER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
4.99
Score
4.99
Metric
Word error rate (WER) of generated speech, measured by Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2
Unit
%
Benchmark version
Voxtral TTS paper arXiv:2603.25551v2, Table 3, MiniMax-TTS Hindi
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Mistral AI, Voxtral TTS paper
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-16
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact released checkpoint mistralai/Voxtral-4B-TTS-2603; Voxtral column in Table 3 for MiniMax-TTS Hindi. The paper measures WER with Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2. Table 3's WER and UTMOS values match Table 6's DPO values for the same task; the paper says DPO changes speaker similarity by at most 0.01.
Context
Mistral-authored automatic result; WER is transcribed by Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2, so it is not an independent transcription audit. The paper does not report the scored sample count, run date, or confidence interval for this row.
Source Mistral AI, Voxtral TTS paper
Voxtral TTS Table 3 MiniMax-TTS Italian WER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
1.32
Score
1.32
Metric
Word error rate (WER) of generated speech, measured by Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2
Unit
%
Benchmark version
Voxtral TTS paper arXiv:2603.25551v2, Table 3, MiniMax-TTS Italian
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Mistral AI, Voxtral TTS paper
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-16
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact released checkpoint mistralai/Voxtral-4B-TTS-2603; Voxtral column in Table 3 for MiniMax-TTS Italian. The paper measures WER with Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2. Table 3's WER and UTMOS values match Table 6's DPO values for the same task; the paper says DPO changes speaker similarity by at most 0.01.
Context
Mistral-authored automatic result; WER is transcribed by Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2, so it is not an independent transcription audit. The paper does not report the scored sample count, run date, or confidence interval for this row.
Source Mistral AI, Voxtral TTS paper
Voxtral TTS Table 3 MiniMax-TTS Dutch WER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
1.99
Score
1.99
Metric
Word error rate (WER) of generated speech, measured by Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2
Unit
%
Benchmark version
Voxtral TTS paper arXiv:2603.25551v2, Table 3, MiniMax-TTS Dutch
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Mistral AI, Voxtral TTS paper
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-16
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact released checkpoint mistralai/Voxtral-4B-TTS-2603; Voxtral column in Table 3 for MiniMax-TTS Dutch. The paper measures WER with Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2. Table 3's WER and UTMOS values match Table 6's DPO values for the same task; the paper says DPO changes speaker similarity by at most 0.01.
Context
Mistral-authored automatic result; WER is transcribed by Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2, so it is not an independent transcription audit. The paper does not report the scored sample count, run date, or confidence interval for this row.
Source Mistral AI, Voxtral TTS paper
Voxtral TTS Table 3 MiniMax-TTS Portuguese WER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
1.02
Score
1.02
Metric
Word error rate (WER) of generated speech, measured by Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2
Unit
%
Benchmark version
Voxtral TTS paper arXiv:2603.25551v2, Table 3, MiniMax-TTS Portuguese
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Mistral AI, Voxtral TTS paper
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-16
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact released checkpoint mistralai/Voxtral-4B-TTS-2603; Voxtral column in Table 3 for MiniMax-TTS Portuguese. The paper measures WER with Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2. Table 3's WER and UTMOS values match Table 6's DPO values for the same task; the paper says DPO changes speaker similarity by at most 0.01.
Context
Mistral-authored automatic result; WER is transcribed by Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2, so it is not an independent transcription audit. The paper does not report the scored sample count, run date, or confidence interval for this row.
Source Mistral AI, Voxtral TTS paper
Voxtral TTS Table 3 SEED-TTS WER (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
1.23
Score
1.23
Metric
Word error rate (WER) of generated speech, measured by Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2
Unit
%
Benchmark version
Voxtral TTS paper arXiv:2603.25551v2, Table 3, SEED-TTS
Category
audio
Direction
Lower is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Mistral AI, Voxtral TTS paper
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-16
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact released checkpoint mistralai/Voxtral-4B-TTS-2603; Voxtral column in Table 3 for SEED-TTS. The paper measures WER with Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2. Table 3's WER and UTMOS values match Table 6's DPO values for the same task; the paper says DPO changes speaker similarity by at most 0.01.
Context
Mistral-authored automatic result; WER is transcribed by Voxtral Mini Transcribe v2, so it is not an independent transcription audit. The paper does not report the scored sample count, run date, or confidence interval for this row.
Source Mistral AI, Voxtral TTS paper
Voxtral TTS Table 4 explicit steering win rate vs ElevenLabs v3 (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
51
Score
51
Metric
Pairwise human preference win rate, ties excluded, explicit emotion steering
Unit
%
Benchmark version
Voxtral TTS paper arXiv:2603.25551v2, Table 4, flagship voices, explicit steering
Category
audio
Direction
Higher is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Mistral AI, Voxtral TTS paper
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-16
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact released checkpoint mistralai/Voxtral-4B-TTS-2603; Table 4 compares the four flagship voices (British female, British male, American male, French female) with competitor voices matched for gender and accent. Voxtral uses another reference clip from the same speaker that conveys the requested emotion; it accepts no emotion tags or text instructions. Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS receives free-form instructions, and ElevenLabs v3 receives emotion tags. Three native speakers of the same dialect annotate each language/model pair; the reported win rate excludes ties.
Context
Mistral-authored pairwise human preference result. The study describes 77 prompts and three native-speaker annotators of the same dialect per language/model pair, but not the total scored comparisons, vote denominator, or confidence interval. Table 4 excludes ties. This measures preference under the stated steering setup, not standardized emotion recognition.
Source Mistral AI, Voxtral TTS paper

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Popularity compared

How often the model is searched for, used and mentioned, compared with every model of its category.

Popularity index

0 to 100, higher is more popular

20 of 83 models

As of November 2026 · Source: gradually.ai popularity index

Over time

Weekly values from October 18, 2026 to November 6, 2026

Voxtral Mini TTSIndex-Echo-S2ST-2B 30MOSS-Audio-4B-Thinking 29Index-Echo-S2ST-9B 29Scribe v2 Realtime 29

Method changes in the timeline, a jump at these points is no market event:

  1. 1November 1, 2026: Value only with search or usage data, 30-day attention

What is gaining popularity right now, across models, vendors, harnesses and AI subscriptions, is collected in All AI trends.

All specifications

Architecture

Model class
Text-to-speech
Source: Model class

Input and output

Input
Text and voice sample
Source: Input
Output
Audio
Source: Output
Languages
9 languages
Source: Languages
Time to first audio
About 90 ms when streaming
Source: Time to first audio

Watermarking and provenance

AI watermarking refers to invisible signals embedded in the output. Visible marks and provenance metadata are listed separately. Unknown means there is insufficient evidence for that particular field.

AI watermarking
Unknown
no source
Watermarking technique
Not known
no source

Licence and access

Access
API and local execution
Source: Access
Weights license
CC BY-NC 4.0
Source: Weights license

API

API model ID
voxtral-mini-tts-2603
Source: API model ID

Further details

Task
Speech generation and voice cloning
Source: Task
Supported details
Nine languages and zero-shot voice cloning
Source: Supported details

Prices

Speech generation price
$16 per 1M charactersSource

Sources and data date

Show all 22 sources

Benchmark sources at a glance

Which independent evaluators tested this model. This is coverage, not a quality ranking.

No active result from the reviewed external evaluators can currently be attributed to this model. Other source evidence remains available below.

Without vendor claims and historical or disputed results; those stay labelled in the single values.

TypeEvidence and data date
Research statusResearch date October 15, 2026. 17 source URLs checked. This documents the inspected sources, not an exhaustive inventory of every publication.
Not published

human-preference-vote-denominator

Note

The paper publishes the 68.4% overall win-rate estimate but no total scored pairwise comparisons or confidence interval. No denominator or uncertainty interval is inferred.

Additional sourceMistral model documentation (retrieved September 24, 2026; October 15, 2026; October 18, 2026) · Mistral AI Voxtral TTS model page · Editorial description reviewed October 2, 2026
Additional sourceArtificial Analysis (retrieved October 15, 2026)
Additional sourceMistral AI, Voxtral TTS paper (retrieved October 16, 2026)
Additional sourceArtificial Analysis Controlled Voice Arena (retrieved October 18, 2026; October 28, 2026; October 29, 2026; October 30, 2026; November 3, 2026)
Additional sourceRunning Voxtral TTS on OCI Data Science: an A10 lab with streaming benchmarks (retrieved October 19, 2026)
Additional sourceArtificial Analysis (retrieved October 28, 2026; October 29, 2026; October 30, 2026; November 3, 2026)
Additional sourceDesignArena (retrieved October 28, 2026)
Additional sourceModel metadata (retrieved October 16, 2026)
Additional sourceModel metadata (retrieved October 28, 2026)12345678
Additional sourceOpenRouter: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0
Additional sourceVercel AI Gateway: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0
Additional sourceOllama: cumulative downloads for the popularity index
Additional sourceReplicate: cumulative runs for the popularity index
Additional sourceGoogle Trending Now: limited feed selection for Germany and the US
Additional sourceCreative Commons Attribution 4.0