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Audio
Medium
Closed weights
MAI-Transcribe-2
70 days since Microsoft announced it ·
MAI-Transcribe-2 is a closed-weights audio model from Microsoft, announced 3 Sep 2026. It costs $0.10 per hour (limited-time launch offer through end of year).
- Price
- $0.10
- per hour (limited-time launch offer through end of year)
- Parameters
- —
- not disclosed
- Announcement
- microsoft.ai/news/mai-transcribe-2-is-the-fastest-most-accurate-and-cheapest-speech-recognition-model-in-the-world
- Docs
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-service/mai-transcribe
- Our story
- Our story
Our coverage
1 storyMicrosoft · Medium · MAI-Transcribe
closed weightsA new one every ~61 days — due in ~19d.
- MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming +28d
- MAI-Transcribe-2 +93d
- MAI-Transcribe-1.5 +61d
- MAI-Transcribe-1
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