Microsoft is making a major push into real-time voice AI with three new models designed to make conversations with AI assistants faster, more natural, and more responsive. The company has launched MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, its first streaming transcription model, alongside MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash for high-quality text-to-speech. Together, the models are designed to reduce the delays that can […]

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