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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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