Microsoft AI releases MAI-Transcribe-2 speech recognition model

MAI-Transcribe-2 ranks #1 on FLEURS across 60 languages with 5.2% average WER, and is priced at $0.10 per hour of audio via Microsoft Foundry. It claims up to 10x faster processing than leading competitors, with features like speaker diarization and word-level timestamps.
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MAI-Transcribe-2 is the fastest, most accurate and cheapest speech recognition model in the worldmicrosoft.ai
Microsoft AI’s MAI-Transcribe-2 undercuts OpenAI, Google and ElevenLabs on price and speedventurebeat.com
Fastest. Cheapest. Best. ... MAI-Transcribe-2 10x faster than GPT-Transcribe. 5x faster than Gemini...x.com
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