MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming
Microsoft's first streaming ASR model. Exact API model ids not verified. Benchmarks are Microsoft-reported.
- Input
- audio
- Output
- text
- License
- proprietary
- Pricing
- per hour: $0.54 (USD per hour of audio (through end of 2026)) source
- Verified
- 2026-10-02
How to call it
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint / URL | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Foundry | — | — | docs |
| Azure Voice Live | — | — | docs |
| OpenRouter | — | openrouter.ai/ | — |
| Web app (MAI Playground) | — | playground.microsoft.ai/ | — |
Notable capabilities (1)
- Low-latency streaming transcription: First hypotheses in just over 100 ms; Microsoft claims #1 accuracy on Artificial Analysis for final and partial transcripts, 60 languages with auto-detection. source
Timeline entry
- Microsoft AI launches MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming (real-time ASR) and MAI-Voice-2.1 / 2.1-Flash ★★
On Oct 1, 2026 Microsoft AI released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, its first streaming speech-recognition model (first hypotheses in just over 100 ms, 60 languages, $0.54/hour through year-end), and two text-to-speech models, MAI-Voice-2.1 ($22 per 1M characters) and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash (150 ms…
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