# Microsoft introduces MAI-Transcribe-2 with $0.10-per-hour launch price

_Published Thursday, September 3, 2026 at 2:07 PM EDT · AI · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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Microsoft introduced MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech-recognition model with speaker diarization, word-level timestamps, configurable transcription styles, keyword biasing and automatic language identification. Microsoft said the model supports 60 languages and will launch at $0.10 per hour through the end of the year. The company also claimed faster processing and stronger accuracy than several named competing transcription models, citing its own benchmark and third-party evaluation references.

## Sources

- [Source](https://microsoft.ai/news/mai-transcribe-2-is-the-fastest-most-accurate-and-cheapest-speech-recognition-model-in-the-world/)

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Published: 2026-09-03T18:07:00.280Z
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Retrieved: 2026-10-19T03:57:43.404Z
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