Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)
Speech Recognition Is Not a Solved Problem — Pavan Kumar Reddy
· 1 h 42 min
Show notes
Pavan Kumar Reddy leads audio research at Mistral AI. He joins Tim Scarfe for a deep technical tour of Voxtral — and explains why the frontier of deployed voice is still a cascade of specialised models rather than one end-to-end system.
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MISTRAL AI:
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This episode was produced in partnership with Mistral AI.
Mistral AI: https://mistral.ai/
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The conversation opens on architecture. Voxtral Chat feeds a 3B Ministral text trunk with continuous embeddings from an audio encoder, passed to the decoder as direct token input rather than through cross-attention as in Whisper…
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