“Microsoft AI’s MAI-Transcribe-2 undercuts OpenAI, Google and ElevenLabs on price and speed”

Key points

• MAI-Transcribe-2 is faster, more accurate, and cheaper than rivals according to Microsoft.
• The price dropped from $0.36 to $0.10 per hour, a roughly 72% decrease.
• The model supports 60 languages and runs on Foundry and MAI Playground.
• Key features include diarization, word-level timestamps, biasing, and automatic language ID.
• Microsoft claims top or near-top performance on FLEURS and Artificial Analysis benchmarks.