Microsoft AI launches MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming alongside multilingual MAI-Voice 2.1 models

Microsoft has launched MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming model, with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, calling it the most accurate real-time audio transcription model in the world. Unveiled alongside two companion speech generation models – MAI-Voice-2.1 and the high-speed MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash – the release is designed to provide developers with responsive, low-cost building blocks for building autonomous conversational voice agents.According to Suleyman, the new voice architecture delivers inference speeds that are 55% faster and operational costs that are 60% cheaper than comparable offerings like ElevenLabs. He said in a post on X (formerly Twitter): “We’re launching the most accurate real time transcription model in the world… #1 !!! 55% faster and 60% cheaper than ElevenLabs. Come build agents on our platform!”