multilingual-ai

Microsoft has released MAI-Transcribe-1, a speech-to-text model that achieves the lowest word error rate on the FLEURS benchmark across 25 languages, outperforming Whisper-large-V3, GPT-Transcribe, and Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite. The model runs 2.5 times faster than Microsoft's previous Azure Fast offering and costs $0.36 per audio hour.