Speech and audio·EASYHUB JOURNAL
Microsoft launches MAI real-time speech stack with streaming transcription and multilingual voice models

What changed
Microsoft introduced MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming together with MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash on October 1. Streaming transcription supports 60 languages and continuous language detection, while the voice models cover 23 languages. All are accessible through Microsoft Foundry; MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming is in public preview without an SLA, and Microsoft’s latency and ranking claims reflect vendor-reported or cited benchmark results.
- Original title
- Our first streaming transcription model debuts at no. 1 on Artificial Analysis
- Source
- Microsoft · microsoft.ai
- Topic
- Speech and audio
- Source month
- 2026-10
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