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Microsoft ships MAI-Voice-2.1 and a streaming version of MAI-Transcribe-2

New in-house voice and speech recognition models from Microsoft.

On 1 October, Microsoft shipped MAI-Voice-2.1, its in-house voice model, and MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a streaming version of its speech recognition model.

Microsoft is building its own voice stack instead of relying only on partners, which adds another big name to a crowded field.

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