# Microsoft AI — Introducing MAI-Voice-2 | Microsoft AI

- Company: Microsoft AI (microsoft.ai)
- Announced: 2026-06-02
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://microsoft.ai/news/mai-voice-2/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/10767-introducing-mai-voice-2-microsoft-ai
- Subject: MAI
- Models affected: MAI-Voice-2

Microsoft AI launched MAI-Voice-2, a text-to-speech model supporting 15 languages with granular emotion control, zero-shot voice prompting, and code-switching capabilities. The model is preferred over its predecessor 72% of the time and is now available in Microsoft Foundry, with integration into VSCode and Dynamics 365 Contact Center.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://microsoft.ai/news/mai-voice-2/:

> In side-by-side preference tests, it was preferred over its predecessors 72% of the time. In speaker similarity evaluations, speech generated by MAI-Voice-2 is indistinguishable from recordings of the same voice.

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