Microsoft's MAI-Transcribe 2 tops FLEURS, transcribes 90 minutes of audio in 15 seconds

altryne · x · 2026-09-04

Microsoft's MAI-Transcribe 2 is live on OpenRouter, ranked #1 on FLEURS with speech-to-text across 60 languages, automatic language ID, code switching, speaker diarization and word-level timestamps. User altryne reports it's far more accurate than Whisper-3-large and transcribed 90+ minutes of diarized audio in just 15 seconds.

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