# Our first streaming transcription model debuts at no. 1 on Artificial Analysis | Microsoft AI

MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming provides real-time transcription across 60 languages with 100ms partial hypothesis latency, priced at $0.54 per audio hour through year-end.

- MAI-Voice-2.1 supports 23 languages and 26 locales while preserving a single speaker's voice profile across languages for $22 per 1M characters.
- MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash generates 45 seconds of audio with 150ms end-to-end latency and costs $15 per 1M characters.
- Both voice models support voice cloning using a few seconds of reference audio with built-in consent guardrails.
- A live demonstration application called Chatter is available in the MAI Playground.

## Why it matters

Developers building voice agents can achieve faster response loops and consistent cross-lingual voice profiles at lower latency and inference costs.

## Sources

- [Microsoft AI: Our first streaming transcription model debuts at no. 1 on Artificial Analysis | Microsoft AI](https://microsoft.ai/news/our-first-streaming-transcription-model)

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Summarized by dstilled on 2026-10-01. https://dstilled.ai/story/95c99cd5-d396-4793-893a-7eec4f991a43