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MAI-Transcribe-1
MAI-Transcribe-1 is an AI model made by Microsoft. Microsoft released it on 2 April 2026. Microsoft retired it on 15 September 2026.
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MAI-Transcribe-1 is an AI model made by Microsoft. Microsoft released it on 2 April 2026. Microsoft retired it on 15 September 2026. It takes audio and returns text.
- Released
- 2 April 2026 — techcommunity.microsoft.com, read 16 October 2026
- Status
- Not confirmed: two readings disagree: retired and deprecated
- Takes
- Audio — ai.azure.com, read 16 October 2026
- Returns
- Text — ai.azure.com, read 16 October 2026
- Open weights
- Not confirmed: The reviewed Microsoft pages do not state whether MAI-Transcribe-1 has open or downloadable weights.
- Licence
- Not confirmed: The model catalog shows a License label but does not print the licence's name.
- Context window
- Not confirmed: The reviewed model page and API documentation do not print a context-window value for MAI-Transcribe-1.
- Longest answer
- Not confirmed: The reviewed model page and API documentation do not print a standard maximum-output token limit for MAI-Transcribe-1.
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not confirmed: The reviewed Microsoft pages do not state a knowledge-cutoff date for this speech-recognition model.
- API price, input
- $0.36 per hour — techcommunity.microsoft.com, read 16 October 2026
- API price, output
- Not confirmed: Microsoft's launch announcement gives an hourly starting price, not a separate output price. The current Azure Speech pricing page does not list MAI-Transcribe-1 or a separate output rate for it.
- Where
- API — techcommunity.microsoft.com, read 16 October 2026
- Parameters
- Not confirmed: The reviewed Microsoft model page and documentation do not publish a parameter count.
- Model card
- Not confirmed: two readings disagree: https://ai.azure.com/catalog/models/MAI-Transcribe-1?publisher=Microsoft and https://microsoft.ai/pdf/MAI-Transcribe-1-Model-Card.pdf
Questions
When was MAI-Transcribe-1 released?
Microsoft released MAI-Transcribe-1 on 2 April 2026.
What does MAI-Transcribe-1 take and return?
MAI-Transcribe-1 takes audio and returns text.
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Sources
- MAI-Transcribe-1 | Model Catalog | Microsoft Foundry (read 16 October 2026)
- Model retirement schedule - Microsoft Foundry (read 16 October 2026)
- Introducing MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 in Microsoft Foundry (read 16 October 2026)
- MAI-Transcribe-2 - Speech Service - Foundry Tools (read 16 October 2026)
- Pricing - Azure Speech in Foundry Tools (read 16 October 2026)