Quick Start
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- 2Use the Microsoft Foundry SDK or REST API to call
MAI-Transcribe-1.5— see the documentation for request format.
Code Examples
About Microsoft Foundry
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Microsoft Foundry is a unified Azure platform-as-a-service offering for enterprise AI operations, model builders, and application development. It provides access to over 1,900 models from Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, xAI, Meta, DeepSeek, Hugging Face, and more. Foundry unifies agents, models, and tools under a single management grouping with built-in enterprise-readiness capabilities including tracing, monitoring, evaluations, and customizable enterprise setup configurations.
Pricing on Microsoft Foundry
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Audio input | $1.00 |
Capabilities
About MAI-Transcribe-1.5
MAI-Transcribe-1.5 is Microsoft AI's second-generation speech-to-text transcription model. It supports 43 languages, domain-specific terminology recognition, and Microsoft-reported five-times-faster transcription than competing models while maintaining state-of-the-art accuracy. Streaming support was announced as coming soon at launch.