Last refreshed 2026-09-03. Next refresh: weekly.
Why use MAI-Transcribe-2 on Microsoft Foundry?
Microsoft Foundry offers MAI-Transcribe-2 with competitive pricing. Microsoft Foundry is a unified Azure platform-as-a-service offering for enterprise AI operations, model builders, and application development.
Setup recipe
Docs fallbackUse the provider REST API or SDKCreate a provider API keymodel: MAI-Transcribe-2MAI-Transcribe-2Request example
MAI-Transcribe-2.Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "MAI-Transcribe-2", not the LLMReference slug "mai-transcribe-2".
Capabilities
About MAI-Transcribe-2
MAI-Transcribe-2 (Azure Speech enhancedMode.model id MAI-Transcribe-2) is Microsoft AI's third-generation speech-to-text / ASR model, announced September 3, 2026. Specialized transcription API, not a chat LLM. First-party: 60 languages; speaker diarization; word-level timestamps; keyword biasing; verbatim/clean transcription styles; code switching; automatic language identification; noise-robust real-world audio. Microsoft reports first place on FLEURS across 60 languages at 5.2% average WER, Artificial Analysis accuracy-latency Pareto leadership, and second place on the Artificial Analysis WER leaderboard. Available to demo via Microsoft Foundry, MAI Playground, and Open Router; Azure Speech docs mark MAI-Transcribe as public preview. Compare it for Speech recognition.