MAI-Voice-2.1
Features
Together, they improve both sides of a voice conversation, from understanding speech in real time to generating natural responses faster.
Instant voice matching
Using the Model
Customer Support
Call-center or customer support: Show a natural back-and-forth where the voice responds quickly enough that it doesn’t feel like a bot “waiting to process.” Interruption handling (if supported) is a great beat here — someone talking over the agent and it adjusting naturally is very persuasive on camera.
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Shakespearean Wisdom
O fair barista, lend thine ear to me. In morning’s light, I crave a potion warm, a latte rich, with froth like clouds above. Sweet nectar of the bean, I do implore.
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Sports Commentator
We’re deep into stoppage time, and the atmosphere is electric! González whips in a perfect cross, Martínez rises, hangs in the air like a superhero! What a header! That’s pure magic from the number 9!
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Meditation
Find a cozy spot, my dear, whether you choose to sit, lie down, or simply stand in serene stillness. Gently close your eyes if that feels right for you. Now take a slow, deep breath in, filling your lungs, and exhale fully, releasing the weight of the day.
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Pirate
Yarr! Gather round, ye skellywags. It be I, Cap’n Barnacle Bill, the unluckiest pirate to ever roam the seven seas.
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Leading in expressiveness and naturalness
MAI-Voice-2.1
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Latency (model inference)
~550ms
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Price
$22 per 1M characters
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Languages
23 Languages
- English (US)
- English (Australia)
- English (UK)
- English (India)
- Italian
- French
- German
- Hindi
- Spanish (Spain)
- Spanish (Mexico)
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Korean
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Turkish
- Russian
- Thai
- Dutch
- Romanian
- Hungarian
- Czech
- Danish
- Finnish
- Indonesian
- Polish
- Swedish
- Norwegian (Bokmål)
- Vietnamese
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Granular Emotion Control
Yes
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Zero-shot Voice Prompting
Yes
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Best For
Fidelity matters more than speed
- Audiobooks
- Content Creation
- Voice-over
MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash
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Latency (model inference)
~45ms
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Price
$15 per 1M characters
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Languages
23 Languages
- English (US)
- English (Australia)
- English (UK)
- English (India)
- Italian
- French
- German
- Hindi
- Spanish (Spain)
- Spanish (Mexico)
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Korean
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Turkish
- Russian
- Thai
- Dutch
- Romanian
- Hungarian
- Czech
- Danish
- Finnish
- Indonesian
- Polish
- Swedish
- Norwegian (Bokmål)
- Vietnamese
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Granular Emotion Control
Yes
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Zero-shot Voice Prompting
Yes
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Best For
Latency sensitive use cases
- Call Center Agents
- Voice Assistant
- IVR
Featured Partner
“One of [the researchers] recorded my introduction and the next thing I knew, he was playing my voice…and the intonation, the pauses…I just thought, wow, that’s quite nice.
“It’s really exciting for me because what we’re about to embark on together is in a way my lifetime’s ambition, which is to bring poetry to everyone.”
– William Sieghart, Ode Founder/Director and author of the “Poetry Pharmacy” anthologies
Dig Deeper
Try MAI-Voice-2.1
MAI Playground
Experiment with all other MAI models.
Copilot Audio Expressions
Bring expressive voice directly into your Copilot workflows.
Microsoft Foundry (Azure Speech)
Build and deploy MAI-Voice with Azure Speech.