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Microsoft Adds MAI-Transcribe and MAI-Voice Models to MAI Playground

Microsoft has added three audio models to MAI Playground: MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming for real-time transcription and the MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash text-to-speech models, plus a voice assistant demo called Chatter. We cover what each model does and costs, how the streaming model ranks on Artificial Analysis, how fast Microsoft’s voice line has moved and what UK developers should check.

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Meta Is Building Voice Dictation Into the Meta AI Website: What Changes When You Can Talk to the Prompt Box

Voice dictation is the one item on Meta’s leaked Meta AI web feature list that still has not shipped, while Research, Reasoning, Presentation and scheduled tasks all landed. That gap is the story: Meta has a full speech stack, a 1,600-language ASR system and dictation on Quest, yet the meta.ai prompt box still only accepts typing. Here is what Meta is actually building, why voice dictation is a different feature from voice mode, how browser dictation gets implemented, and the privacy question a microphone on a web page raises.

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