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Microsoft Slashes Voice Latency With New Streaming Speech Stack
Microsoft dropped MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming and MAI-Voice-2.1, targeting sub-second duplex voice agents at budget-rate pricing.
Tobias Reinholt · Oct 2, 2026 · 4 min read
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Meta Put Real Humans Behind Its Voice Agent And Hoped Nobody Noticed
Meta ran internal tests where human callers quietly took over for its Muse voice agent. Meanwhile, leaks at Microsoft and OpenAI prove autonomous AI is still propped up by people.
Devon Achebe · Sep 28, 2026 · 4 min read
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