MAI-Voice-2
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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
- Voice / TTS
- N · Safety Issues
- None reported
- O · Open Source
- Proprietary
- P · Pricing
- Microsoft Foundry (Azure Speech): $22 per 1M characters
- Q · AIDb Rating
- 7/10 · AIDb v2.0 (curated): Capability 8/10 · Currency 10/10 · Access 2/10 · Significance 5/10 → 7.05
- R · What Makes It Special
- MAI-Voice-2 (June 2, 2026), Microsoft AI's most expressive text-to-speech model, expanding from English only to 15 languages: it creates custom voices from a few seconds of reference audio (5 to 60 seconds recommended) without retraining, with consent enforced so only authorized, licensed voices are used. Listeners preferred it to MAI-Voice-1 in 72.1% of 2,500 tests and to human recordings 45.5% to 44%; it is in Microsoft Foundry and coming to VS Code and Dynamics 365 Contact Center.
- S · Stock / Status
- $516 (MSFT, Sep 25, 2026)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- Yes
- W · Weights
- API only
- X · X Handle
- @Microsoft
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Proprietary Voice / TTS from Microsoft, released 2026.
Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-08-09 · Primary source ↗
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“MAI-Voice-2.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-08-09. https://theaidatabase.com/m/microsoft-mai-voice-2.html
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