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Oct 2, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft's New Speech AI Transcribes Before You Finish Speaking in 100ms

Microsoft released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming for real-time transcription with 100ms latency, plus MAI-Voice-2.1 and Flash for synthesis; the API streams revisable intermediate results, requires apps to manage commit timing, supports 60 languages, and is in public preview on Azure Foundry.