Microsoft launches MAI-Transcribe-2: single multilingual transcription model with diarisation and timestamps

mustafasuleyman · x · 2026-09-12

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman announced MAI-Transcribe-2, a single model for highly accurate multilingual audio transcription across accents and challenging audio conditions, with built-in speaker diarisation and word-level timestamps.

It supports keyword biasing for domain-specific terminology in fields like pharma and medicine, targeting captions, call analysis, and accessibility workflows out of the box. A playground demo is live.

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