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Microsoft AI Debuts Streaming Transcription and Text-to-Speech Models for Voice Agents
Key Takeaways
- Microsoft AI released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a real-time transcription model the company says ranks first for accuracy on Artificial Analysis.
- The transcription model covers 60 languages and returns first partial results in just over 100 milliseconds, enabling agents to respond mid-sentence.
- Introductory pricing is $0.54 per hour of audio through the end of the year.
- MAI-Voice-2.1 speaks 23 languages in the same voice with a native accent in each; the Flash variant hits 150ms latency at $15 per million characters versus $22.
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