Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 Takes #3 on STT Leaderboard at 2.1% WER, Edging Scribe v2

ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-10-21

Artificial Analysis updated its non-streaming speech-to-text leaderboard: Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 ranks #3 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 #5 at 2.2%.

AA-WER v2.5 blends three datasets: AA-AgentTalk (50%), VoxPopuli-Cleaned-AA (25%), and Earnings22-Cleaned-AA (25%). Voxtral Small scores 1.7% on AgentTalk, 1.5% on VoxPopuli, and 3.6% on Earnings22. Charts cover full-model rankings and per-dataset breakdowns.

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