MAI-Voice-2

MAI-Voice-2

Microsoft AI
Octave TTS

Octave TTS

Hume AI
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About

MAI-Voice-2 is Microsoft AI’s most expressive and natural-sounding text-to-speech model to date, built for production voice experiences where fidelity, language coverage, speaker consistency, and emotional range directly shape the user experience. It is designed for assistants, customer support, audiobooks, accessibility experiences, games, podcasts, courses, simulations, and creator workflows where voice quality must sound natural, fluid, and trustworthy. It expands from English-only support to 15 languages while maintaining naturalness and expressiveness, with support for English, Italian, French, German, Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Chinese, Turkish, Russian, Thai, Dutch, Romanian, and Hungarian. MAI-Voice-2 offers granular emotion control through tags such as sad, whispered, and excited, along with role-based expressive speech for experiences like motivational trainers, sports commentators, or character voices.

About

Hume AI has introduced Octave (Omni-capable Text and Voice Engine), a groundbreaking text-to-speech system that leverages large language model technology to understand and interpret the context of words, enabling it to generate speech with appropriate emotions, rhythm, and cadence, unlike traditional TTS models that merely read text, Octave acts akin to a human actor, delivering lines with nuanced expression based on the content. Users can create diverse AI voices by providing descriptive prompts, such as "a sarcastic medieval peasant," allowing for tailored voice generation that aligns with specific character traits or scenarios. Additionally, Octave offers the flexibility to modify the emotional delivery and speaking style through natural language instructions, enabling commands like "sound more enthusiastic" or "whisper fearfully" to fine-tune the output.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Developers and enterprise product teams that need expressive, multilingual, brand-safe text-to-speech for assistants, customer support, accessibility, education, and long-form audio experiences

Audience

Content creators wanting a tool to produce expressive and contextually accurate voiceovers, enhancing listener engagement through lifelike storytelling

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

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Pricing

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Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

$3 per month
Free Version
Free Trial

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Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Microsoft AI
Founded: 2024
United States
microsoft.ai/news/mai-voice-2expressive-speech-in-10-languages/

Company Information

Hume AI
Founded: 2021
United States
www.hume.ai/blog/octave-the-first-text-to-speech-model-that-understands-what-its-saying

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Categories

Categories

Integrations

Hume AI
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Foundry

Integrations

Hume AI
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Foundry
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