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MAI-Voice-2

Name: MAI-Voice-2
Brand: Microsoft

Highest-fidelity MAI TTS for audiobooks, podcasts and long-form narration — ~46 prebuilt voices across 15 languages/18 locales with SSML style+styledegree control and gated instant voice cloning.

Data checked 2026-09-06

Microsoft preview MAI-Voice-2

Context window: —
Max output: —
Input: — per 1M tokens
Output: — per 1M tokens
Released: 2026-06-02
Licence: proprietary

A What it is for

Not token-billed: it runs on the Azure Speech Neural HD Text to Speech meter at $22.00 per 1M characters (Personal Voice cloning is $24.00 per 1M characters).

B Capabilities

streaming

Input modalities	text
Output modalities	audio

C Others from Microsoft

Model	Context	Max out	In $/M	Out $/M	Blended	Status
MAI-Thinking-1 `MAI-Thinking-1`	256K	64K	$2.00	$8.00	$3.50	preview
MAI-Cyber-1-Flash `MAI-Cyber-1-Flash`	—	—	$0.60	$3.50	$1.32	preview
MAI-Image-2.6 `MAI-Image-2.6`	32K	—	—	—	—	preview
MAI-Image-2.6-Flash `MAI-Image-2.6-Flash`	32K	—	—	—	—	preview
MAI-Image-2.5-Pro `MAI-Image-2.5-Pro`	32K	—	$5.00	$106.00	$30.25	preview
MAI-Image-2.5 `MAI-Image-2.5`	32K	—	$5.00	$47.00	$15.50	preview
MAI-Image-2.5-Flash `MAI-Image-2.5-Flash`	32K	—	$1.75	$19.50	$6.19	preview
MAI-Voice-2-Flash `MAI-Voice-2-Flash`	—	—	—	—	—	preview
MAI-Voice-1 `MAI-Voice-1`	—	—	—	—	—	deprecated
MAI-Transcribe-2 `MAI-Transcribe-2`	—	—	—	—	—	preview
MAI-Transcribe-1.5 `MAI-Transcribe-1.5`	—	—	—	—	—	preview
MAI-Transcribe-1 `MAI-Transcribe-1`	—	—	—	—	—	deprecated

D Verify before you commit

Model pricing changes without notice and this page is a snapshot. Confirm against the vendor's own page before you build a budget on it.

Source: learn.microsoft.com · checked 2026-09-06 · Microsoft pricing · API docs

Some figures on this page are recorded at medium confidence — the vendor does not publish them in a single authoritative place. Treat them as indicative.