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Developers and AI teams seeking to build fast, multilingual voice agents, real-time transcription systems, and conversational speech applications
About MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming
MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming is a low-latency streaming transcription model built for real-time speech applications, delivering transcripts in 60 languages with automatic, continuous language detection. Rather than waiting for someone to finish speaking, it produces initial partial transcripts just over 100 ms after receiving audio, revises them as more context arrives, and commits stable text quickly. This allows voice applications to begin reasoning, calling tools, or displaying live transcripts while a person is still speaking. Microsoft reports that the model ranks No. 1 for both final and partial transcript accuracy on Artificial Analysis. MAI-Voice-2.1 complements it with multilingual text-to-speech across 23 languages and 26 locales, allowing a single voice to switch languages while maintaining the same speaker identity and adopting native accents.
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Microsoft AI
Founded: 2024
United States
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