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AI News: The Most Insane Week So Far This Year!Matt Wolfe4 Sept 2026
Microsoft speech recognition model released September 3rd, billed as the fastest, most accurate and cheapest.
Microsoft AI's second-generation speech-to-text model for transcribing noisy, domain-specific audio.
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MAI-Transcribe-2 at a glance
- What is MAI-Transcribe-2?
- MAI-Transcribe-2 is a model from Microsoft. Microsoft AI's second-generation speech-to-text model for transcribing noisy, domain-specific audio.
- Who makes MAI-Transcribe-2?
- MAI-Transcribe-2 is made by Microsoft.
- Does MAI-Transcribe-2 work in the EU?
- Unverified. No explicit evidence found. Last verified 14 Nov 2026.
- How much does MAI-Transcribe-2 cost?
- Pricing unknown. No pricing found in the provided material; a creator described it as cheap. Licence: Proprietary.
- Where was MAI-Transcribe-2 shown?
- In 1 creator video by Matt Wolfe. Most recently by Matt Wolfe on 4 Sept 2026, at 24:43 in “AI News: The Most Insane Week So Far This Year!”.
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About
MAI Transcribe 2 is a speech recognition model from Microsoft AI (MAI), listed on microsoft.ai among its foundational models alongside MAI Thinking 1, MAI Voice 2 and MAI Image 2.6. Microsoft describes it as turning noisy audio into precise, domain-specific transcripts, and cites leading accuracy scores on the FLEURS benchmark and the Artificial Analysis speech-to-text leaderboard.\n\nA YouTube news recap reports a release around September 3rd and describes it as fast, accurate and low-cost. The provided pages do not give exact pricing, supported languages, latency figures or API details. Microsoft positions MAI models as integrated into its own platforms, and offers a separate Custom Models service for fine-tuning with data privacy controls.\n\nThe model is proprietary; no weights, code or paper were found in the provided material.
Key features
- Speech-to-text transcription of noisy audio
- Domain-specific transcript accuracy
- Reported leading FLEURS and Artificial Analysis accuracy scores
- Part of the Microsoft AI MAI model family
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