MAI-Transcribe-1.5
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- Microsoft
- C · CEO & Politics
- Satya Nadella — Centrist / moderate
- D · Date
- 2026
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- No free tier
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Cloud (Foundry + Microsoft products)
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- USA
- K · Key Staffers
- Mustafa Suleyman (CEO Microsoft AI), Kevin Scott (CTO)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- Speech Recognition
- N · Safety Issues
- None reported
- O · Open Source
- Proprietary
- P · Pricing
- Microsoft Foundry (Azure Speech): $0.36 per audio hour
- Q · AIDb Rating
- 8/10 · AIDb v2.0 (curated): Capability 9/10 · Currency 10/10 · Access 2/10 · Significance 6/10 → 7.70
- R · What Makes It Special
- MAI-Transcribe-1.5 (June 2, 2026), Microsoft AI's speech-to-text model, expanded from 25 to 43 languages with best-in-class word error rates on FLEURS and a 2.4% WER that ranks third on Artificial Analysis's leaderboard; keyword biasing for domain terms cuts errors by 30%, it is tuned for noisy audio and runs up to five times faster than rival models on long audio. It powers Copilot, Teams, GitHub and Dynamics 365 Contact Center and is on Microsoft Foundry; diarization and streaming are planned.
- S · Stock / Status
- $516 (MSFT, Sep 25, 2026)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- API only
- X · X Handle
- @Microsoft
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Proprietary Speech Recognition from Microsoft, released 2026.
Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-08-09 · Primary source ↗
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“MAI-Transcribe-1.5.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-08-09. https://theaidatabase.com/m/microsoft-mai-transcribe-1-5.html
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