# Microsoft AI — MAI-Transcribe-2 is the fastest, most accurate and cheapest speech recognition model in the world

- Company: Microsoft AI (microsoft.ai)
- Announced: 2026-09-03
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://microsoft.ai/news/mai-transcribe-2-is-the-fastest-most-accurate-and-cheapest-speech-recognition-model-in-the-world
- Record: https://forck.live/items/8413-mai-transcribe-2-is-the-fastest-most-accurate-and-cheapest-speech-recognition
- Subject: MAI
- Models affected: MAI-Transcribe-2
- Pricing: $0.10 per hour as a limited-time offer until the end of the year

Microsoft AI announced MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech recognition model that it claims is the fastest, most accurate, and cheapest. The model features diarization, configurable transcription styles, and word-level timestamps. It ranks first on the FLEURS benchmark with an average Word-Error-Rate of 5.2% across 60 languages, and is priced at $0.10 per hour as a limited-time offer.

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Verbatim from https://microsoft.ai/news/mai-transcribe-2-is-the-fastest-most-accurate-and-cheapest-speech-recognition-model-in-the-world:

> MAI-Transcribe-2 is the fastest, most accurate and cheapest speech recognition model in the world

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