Microsoft has launched MAI-Transcribe-2, which can transcribe 60 languages, with the highest accuracy for Thai and at the lowest cost in the market.
Microsoft unveiled MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech-to-text model, on September 3, 2026, claiming it to be the fastest, most accurate, and cheapest model in the market. It supports 60 languages, including Thai, and achieved the top score on the FLEURS benchmark with an average word error rate of 5.2% across all 60 languages.
Microsoft has launched MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech-to-text model that supports 60 languages, including Thai. The model claims to be the fastest, most accurate, and cheapest in the market, with an average word error rate of 5.2% across all 60 languages. For Thai language specifically, MAI-Transcribe-2 achieved a word error rate of 3.4%, outperforming other models such as Gemini 3.5 Transcribe and Whisper v3-large.
The model is priced at $0.10 per hour of audio, a 72% reduction from its predecessor, and is available through Microsoft Foundry, MAI Playground, and OpenRouter.
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