Mistral Open-Sources 4B Voice Model, Rated More Natural Than ElevenLabs in Human Evaluation
Mistral released Voxtral TTS, its first voice model, on March 26. The 4B-parameter open-weight model is rated by human evaluators as more natural than ElevenLabs Flash v2.5 and on par with ElevenLabs v3. API pricing is $0.016 per thousand characters, and the model can run on your own server.