MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming tops streaming STT leaderboard with 2.5% WER
ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-10-02
On Final Transcript, Microsoft's MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming hits 2.5% WER at 0.13s after end of speech, ranking #1 of 38 models on Artificial Analysis's AA-WER Streaming leaderboard. It beats Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 (2.7% WER, 0.49s), Muse Voice Transcribe (3.1%, 0.16s), Cartesia Ink Preview with external endpoints (3.1%, 0.11s) and ElevenLabs Scribe v2 Realtime (3.6%, 0.14s), and is faster than all except Cartesia — sitting on the low-error end of the accuracy-vs-latency Pareto frontier.
Related event: Microsoft's MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming Tops Speech Transcription Benchmarks(2 posts)→
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