Microsoft: MAI-Transcribe 2
MAI-Transcribe 2 is a speech to text model from Microsoft released on Sep 3, 2026. It reads audio and writes text.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- n/a
- Context
- n/a
- Max output
- n/a
- Released
- Sep 3, 2026
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
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MAI-Transcribe 2 questions
Is MAI-Transcribe 2 open source?
No. Microsoft serves it through an API only, so you cannot download the weights or host it yourself.
When was MAI-Transcribe 2 released?
Sep 3, 2026.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.