Microsoft AI on Thursday released MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech-recognition model the company says is faster, more accurate, and cheaper than anything OpenAI, Google, or ElevenLabs currently sells. When Microsoft AI shipped the first model in this line just five months ago, it charged $0.36 an hour.
Microsoft AI on Thursday released MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech-recognition model the company says is faster, more accurate, and cheaper than anything OpenAI, Google, or ElevenLabs currently sells.
When Microsoft AI shipped the first model in this line just five months ago, it charged $0.36 an hour.
Transcription is the modality where that plan has moved fastest, and MAI-Transcribe-2 is its clearest proof point yet.
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Microsoft AI on Thursday released MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech-recognition model the company says is faster, more accurate, and cheaper than anything OpenAI, Google, or ElevenLabs currently sells. When Microsoft AI shipped the first model in this line just five months ago, it charged $0.36 an hour. Transcription is the modality where that plan has moved fastest, and MAI-Transcribe-2 is its clearest proof point yet.
Then it priced the thing at 10 cents per hour of audio. Thursday's early-bird price cuts that by roughly 72%. At that level, transcription stops being a line item anyone argues about.
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