{"schema":"postcutoff/model@1","as_of":"2026-10-25T23:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-mini-tts-3/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-mini-tts-3/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"voxtral-mini-tts-3","name":"Voxtral TTS 3 (Voxtral Mini TTS 3)","org":"Mistral AI","family":"Voxtral","released":"2026-10-20","status":"preview","type":"audio/speech","modality_in":["text","audio"],"modality_out":["audio"],"open_weights":false,"model_license":"proprietary","context_window":null,"max_output":null,"knowledge_cutoff":null,"pricing":{"per_1m_characters":13,"unit":"USD per 1M characters (Mistral API)","source":"https://docs.mistral.ai/models/voxtral-mini-tts-3-0"},"price_line":"$13 per 1M characters","access":[{"provider":"Mistral API","model_id":"voxtral-mini-tts-3-0","endpoint":"https://api.mistral.ai/v1/audio/speech","docs":"https://docs.mistral.ai/models/voxtral-mini-tts-3-0"},{"provider":"Mistral Studio docs (text-to-speech)","url":"https://docs.mistral.ai/studio/audio/text-to-speech/overview"}],"capabilities":[{"name":"Context-following emotion with explicit controls","detail":"Adapts emotion, pacing and emphasis to the conversation; explicit `emotion`, `pacing` and `emphasis` instruction variables; the model card lists 34 emotion tags and 2 pace tags.","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-3"},{"name":"Pro Voice adaptation","detail":"Professional voice cloning reproduces a speaker's character, emotional range and style across languages from about 30 minutes of audio; zero-shot cloning also listed on the card.","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-3"},{"name":"Streaming with ~90 ms time to first audio","detail":"Batch and realtime synthesis on /v1/audio/speech, roughly 90 ms time-to-first-audio and five output formats (model card).","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://docs.mistral.ai/models/voxtral-mini-tts-3-0"}],"entry":"2026-10-20-mistral-voxtral-3","notes":"Artificial Analysis TTS arena (https://artificialanalysis.ai/text-to-speech/leaderboard), read 2026-10-25: rank #12, Elo 1219, $13.0 per 1M characters. Docs: v3.0, 'Public Preview', 'Premier' (API-only; no open weights found, unlike the CC BY-NC Voxtral TTS of March 2026). Language count conflicts: the launch post says 35+ languages and 50+ dialects (voice presets in 18 languages), while the model card says nine supported languages; unresolved. Parameter count not stated. Voice-agent SDK (LiveKit-based, SIP/WebRTC) launched alongside at $0.04/min (Mistral Small 4) or $0.08/min (larger model). Successor of voxtral-tts (voxtral-tts-2603).","verified":"2026-10-25","body_md":"Mistral's Voxtral 3 text-to-speech model for voice agents and narration.\n\nCall `POST https://api.mistral.ai/v1/audio/speech` with `model: voxtral-mini-tts-3-0` (request schema and voices: https://docs.mistral.ai/studio/audio/text-to-speech/overview).\n\nSources: https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-3 · https://docs.mistral.ai/models/voxtral-mini-tts-3-0 · https://docs.mistral.ai/models/overview · https://artificialanalysis.ai/text-to-speech/leaderboard","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-mini-tts-3/","standing":{"kind":"speech and audio","newer_count":0,"newer":[],"before":{"id":"voxtral-tts","name":"Voxtral TTS","org":"Mistral AI","released":"2026-03-23","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-tts/"},"after":null,"weights":"closed","licence":"proprietary","licence_permissive":false,"summary":"Closed weights; access is hosted only."}}