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MAI-Transcribe-2
Microsoft
- Released
- September 3, 2026
- Data date
- October 3, 2026
- Model class
- Languages
- Access
MAI-Transcribe-2 is Microsoft’s file-oriented speech-to-text endpoint for 60 languages. Speaker attribution, timestamps, and domain biasing extend the spoken words with structured transcript information.
The API identifier is mai-transcribe-2. Foundry access is a public preview without an SLA, with an introductory price of $0.10 per hour of audio. Live input uses the separate streaming variant with its own identifier.
Specifications and access
| Specification | Value and source |
|---|---|
| Model class | Speech recognitionSource |
| Access | Microsoft Foundry APISource |
| Input | Recorded audioSource |
| Output | Transcript with timestamps and speaker attributionSource |
| API model ID | mai-transcribe-2Source |
| Preview terms | Public preview without an SLASource |
| Languages | 60 languagesSource |
| Features | Speaker diarization, timestamps, and domain biasingSource |
Measurements without matching peer values
These measurements have no matching peer values under the same test conditions. Their original values and sources remain available here.
average WER over 60 languages (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 5.2
- Score
- 5.2
- Metric
- word error rate
- Unit
- %
- Benchmark version
- FLEURS-60 setup; source version not stated
- Category
- audio
- Direction
- Lower is better
- Source type
- vendor-reported
- Evaluator
- Microsoft MAI-Transcribe-2 announcement
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-04
- Methodology
- Vendor-reported result. Microsoft announcement; file transcription, diarization available
- Context
- Source-specific observation; it does not establish a compatible cross-model cohort.
Published prices
Prices apply to the stated unit. Resolution, output length, and provider can change the cost.
- Introductory price
- $0.10 per hour of audio as an introductory priceSource
Sources and data date
Every statement links to its underlying documentation or leaderboard.
| Type | Evidence and data date |
|---|---|
| Research status | Research date October 4, 2026. 1 source URLs checked. This documents the inspected sources, not an exhaustive inventory of every publication. |
| Additional source | Microsoft MAI Transcribe preview documentation (retrieved October 3, 2026) · Microsoft MAI Transcribe preview documentation · Editorial description reviewed October 3, 2026 |
| Additional source | Microsoft MAI-Transcribe-2 release (retrieved October 3, 2026; October 4, 2026) · Microsoft MAI-Transcribe-2 release · Editorial description reviewed October 3, 2026 |
| Additional source | Microsoft MAI-Transcribe-2 model page (retrieved October 3, 2026) · Microsoft MAI-Transcribe-2 model page · Editorial description reviewed October 3, 2026 |