Remove audio optional dependency for mistral-common (#28722)

Signed-off-by: Julien Denize <julien.denize@mistral.ai>
Signed-off-by: Julien Denize <40604584+juliendenize@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Cyrus Leung <cyrus.tl.leung@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Cyrus Leung <tlleungac@connect.ust.hk>

docs/contributing/model/transcription.md

@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ No extra registration is required beyond having your model class available via t
 ## Examples in-tree
 
 - Whisper encoder–decoder (audio-only): [vllm/model_executor/models/whisper.py](../../../vllm/model_executor/models/whisper.py)
-- Voxtral decoder-only (audio embeddings + LLM): [vllm/model_executor/models/voxtral.py](../../../vllm/model_executor/models/voxtral.py)
+- Voxtral decoder-only (audio embeddings + LLM): [vllm/model_executor/models/voxtral.py](../../../vllm/model_executor/models/voxtral.py). Make sure to have installed `mistral-common[audio]`.
 - Gemma3n decoder-only with fixed instruction prompt: [vllm/model_executor/models/gemma3n_mm.py](../../../vllm/model_executor/models/gemma3n_mm.py)
 
 ## Test with the API

docs/models/supported_models.md

@@ -785,6 +785,9 @@ Speech2Text models trained specifically for Automatic Speech Recognition.
 | `Gemma3nForConditionalGeneration` | Gemma3n | `google/gemma-3n-E2B-it`, `google/gemma-3n-E4B-it`, etc. | | |
 | `GraniteSpeechForConditionalGeneration` | Granite Speech | `ibm-granite/granite-speech-3.3-2b`, `ibm-granite/granite-speech-3.3-8b`, etc. | ✅︎ | ✅︎ |
 
+!!! note
+    `VoxtralForConditionalGeneration` requires `mistral-common[audio]` to be installed.
+
 ### Pooling Models
 
 See [this page](./pooling_models.md) for more information on how to use pooling models.

examples/offline_inference/audio_language.py

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ class ModelRequestData(NamedTuple):
 
 
 # Voxtral
+# Make sure to install mistral-common[audio].
 def run_voxtral(question: str, audio_count: int) -> ModelRequestData:
     from mistral_common.audio import Audio
     from mistral_common.protocol.instruct.chunk import (

requirements/common.txt

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ partial-json-parser # used for parsing partial JSON outputs
 pyzmq >= 25.0.0
 msgspec
 gguf >= 0.13.0
-mistral_common[image,audio] >= 1.8.5
+mistral_common[image] >= 1.8.5
 opencv-python-headless >= 4.11.0    # required for video IO
 pyyaml
 six>=1.16.0; python_version > '3.11' # transitive dependency of pandas that needs to be the latest version for python 3.12