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Microsoft AI releases new transcription and text-to-speech models for voice agents
Microsoft AI releases real-time transcription and text-to-speech models for voice agents.
Microsoft AI released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a real-time transcription model that ranks first for accuracy on Artificial Analysis, transcribes 60 languages, and delivers first partial results in just over 100 milliseconds.
It also released two text-to-speech models, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash, which speak 23 languages in the same voice with a native accent in each.
Both voice models can clone a voice from a few seconds of reference audio, and built-in safeguards are meant to prevent misuse.
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Microsoft says this lets voice agents respond while someone is still mid-sentence. Through the end of the year, an hour of audio costs $0.54 at the introductory price.
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