MAI-Voice-2.1
Microsoft released MAI-Voice-2.1 and a low-latency MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash on October 1, 2026, alongside MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, which transcribes live speech in 60 languages with partial results in just over 100 ms
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Audio Generation
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Oct 2026
released
Microsoft released MAI-Voice-2.1 and a low-latency MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash on October 1, 2026, alongside MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, which transcribes live speech in 60 languages with partial results in just over 100 ms.
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