When to pick this variant
Use this if your production audio is mostly Spanish (specially Argentine). It matches the bf16 baseline WER on Argentine Spanish and beats plain AWQ4 by 38% on Argentine.
Benchmarks vs bf16 baseline
Data: FLEURS + Common Voice 15 + Multilingual LibriSpeech + ylacombe/google-argentinian-spanish (es-AR). Hardware: 2x RTX 4090, vLLM 0.25. Bold = best 4-bit variant.
Table with columns: Metric, Voxtral-Mini bf16 (baseline), AWQ4-ARG, AWQ4-EN, AWQ4-GEN| Metric | Voxtral-Mini bf16 (baseline) | AWQ4-ARG | AWQ4-EN | AWQ4-GEN |
|---|
| WER es | 5.82 | 4.68 | 4.60 | 4.55 |
| WER de | 6.06 | 7.13 | 6.66 | 8.16 |
| WER fr | 8.01 | 10.59 | 6.70 | 9.33 |
| WER it | 6.50 | 7.02 | 7.01 | 6.94 |
| WER pt | 7.16 | 7.21 | 6.14 | 6.08 |
| WER nl | 9.24 | 7.95 | 11.29 | 10.59 |
| WER en (no MLS) | 6.65 | 7.00 | 6.96 | 7.01 |
| WER avg-6 | 7.13 | 7.43 | 7.07 | 7.61 |
| WER es-AR | 4.69 | 5.00 | 5.11 | 5.04 |
| VRAM (weights) | 8.8 GB | 4.36 GB | 4.36 GB | 4.36 GB |
| Throughput (tok/s, higher=better) | 170.9 | 185.0 | 186.3 | 186.5 |
This card is the AWQ4-ARG variant.
Usage (vLLM)
# 1. In your vLLM venv, add the deps Voxtral needs
uv pip install --python /path/to/vllm/venv/python "mistral-common[soundfile]"
# 2. Serve
vllm serve JuanGiner/AWQ4-ARG \
--tokenizer-mode mistral \
--config-format mistral \
--max-model-len 8192 \
--gpu-memory-utilization 0.9 \
--port 8000
Then send audio to POST /v1/audio/transcriptions in OpenAI-compatible format.
Calibration
500 audio samples (250 Argentine from ylacombe/google-argentinian-spanish, 250 LatAm from google/fleurs es_419) passed through the audio encoder — captures real prefill activations.
Quantization was done with llmcompressor 0.10 (AWQ modifier, W4A16 scheme, group_size=128, duo_scaling=True),
targeting Linear modules inside LlamaDecoderLayer. The compressed-tensors format matches what vLLM 0.25.x expects
for AWQ models (weights re-fused for the vLLM Voxtral loader).
Base model & license
Base: mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507, Apache-2.0.
This quantized derivative is released under the same license.