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title: "Microsoft releases MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, topping real-time speech-to-text ranking"
url: https://www.parallelquant.com/posts/microsoft-releases-mai-transcribe-2-streaming-topping-real-time-speech-t-67765b
source_name: "MarkTechPost"
source_url: https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/02/microsoft-ai-releases-mai-transcribe-2-streaming-1-real-time-speech-to-text-model-on-artificial-analysis/
published: 2026-10-03T05:09:53.000Z
topics: ["products"]
publisher: "Parallel Quant"
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# Microsoft releases MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, topping real-time speech-to-text ranking

*2026-10-03 · Source: [MarkTechPost](https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/02/microsoft-ai-releases-mai-transcribe-2-streaming-1-real-time-speech-to-text-model-on-artificial-analysis/)*

Microsoft AI released its first real-time speech-to-text model, ranking #1 of 38 on Artificial Analysis' streaming word-error-rate (WER) benchmark. It reports 2.5% WER at about 0.13s latency across 60 languages, at $0.54 per hour during introductory pricing, in public preview on Foundry.

**Why it matters:** Microsoft is now shipping its own first-party models that compete head-on with specialist speech vendors, reducing reliance on partners. Together with Qwen's 60-language translator and Grok's transcription gains, real-time speech is becoming a crowded, fast-commoditizing category.

**Topics:** products

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