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Microsoft AI releases new transcription and text-to-speech models for voice agents

The Decoder · Oct 2, 2026, 9:20 AM UTC

Microsoft AI has released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a new model for real-time transcription. The article Microsoft AI releases new transcription and text-to-speech models for voice agents appeared first on The Decoder .

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