Mistral has released new Speech models! Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 takes the #3 spot on the Artificial Analysis Speech to Text leaderboard, and Voxtral 3 TTS enters the top 12 in both Text to Speech arenas @MistralAI has released Voxtral 3: a new Text to Speech model and three Speech to Text models (Small Transcribe 3, Mini Transcribe 3 and Mini Transcribe Realtime 3). We evaluated all of them. Key takeaways: ➤ Speech to Text: Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 takes the #3 spot on the Artificial Analysis Speech to Text leaderboard with a 2.1% AA-WER Index, ahead of ElevenLabs Scribe v2 (2.2%) and Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 (2.3%). Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 lands at #5 with 2.2%. ➤ Streaming Speech to Text: Voxtral Mini Transcribe Realtime 3 scores 3.3% final-transcript AA-WER at the 960 ms setting (#6 of 46) and 3.6% at 480 ms, down from 5.2% for the previous Voxtral Mini Transcribe Realtime. ➤ Text to Speech, Provider Voice: Voxtral 3 TTS scores an Elo of 1,218 across 1,599 arena appearances, ranking #12 of 98, just behind Breeze TTS 2 at 1,221 and ahead of Inworld Realtime TTS-2 Flash and StepAudio 2.5 TTS at 1,216. It ranks #13 in English (US) and #12 in English (UK). ➤ Text to Speech, Controlled Voice: Voxtral 3 TTS scores 1,068 across 1,614 appearances, ranking #12 of 43 with the same 8 cloned voices, behind Eleven v3 at 1,072 and level with Ant Group's Ming-3.0-tts at 1,068. It ranks #10 in Assistants and #10 in English (UK). ➤ Pronunciation Robustness: Voxtral 3 TTS scores 84.4%, ranking #13 of 32 models, behind Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus at 84.6% and ahead of HeyGen Voice at 83.2%. It ranks #3 in Standalone Terms at 93.9%. ➤ Pricing: Voxtral 3 TTS is priced at $13/1M characters, compared to Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS at $16.5/1M characters, Eleven v4 Turbo at $40/1M characters and Simba 3.2 at $6.6/1M characters. See more details and listen to samples below ⬇️

FLUX 3 Max from @fal, a post-trained version of @bfl_ai's FLUX 3, ranks #2 on AA-Video-I2V v1.1 (statistically tied for #1) and #4 on AA-Video-T2V v2.1, ahead of the base FLUX 3 on both FLUX 3 Max generates 5 to 20 second, 720p videos with native audio from a text prompt or a starting image. fal reports that it generates a 10 second video in under 12 seconds. We benchmarked it at the high reasoning level. FLUX 3 Max ranks #2 on AA-Video-I2V v1.1 and #4 on AA-Video-T2V v2.1, statistically tied with Dreamina Seedance 2.5 and MiniMax H3 (768p) on both, and ahead of its base model FLUX 3. On AA-Video-T2V v2.1, it scores highest of any model in the Physics capability, and in the Marketing & Advertising and Live-Action Film use cases. fal prices FLUX 3 Max at $10.20/min for 720p video, compared to $17.40/min for FLUX 3, and $24.60/min for Dreamina Seedance 2.5 and $5.40/min for MiniMax H3 (768p) on Image to Video. For the first three weeks of launch, fal is offering 75% off, at $2.55/min. Congratulations to @fal on the release! See below for our detailed analysis and comparisons between FLUX 3 Max and other leading models on AA-Video-T2V v2.1 and AA-Video-I2V v1.1 🧵