MAI-Transcribe-1

MAI‑Transcribe‑1 is a best-in-class speech‑to‑text model, designed for real‑world audio. It provides consistently strong transcription accuracy across accents, speaking styles, and noisy environments, giving developers a strong foundation for building high‑quality voice understanding into their applications.

About this model

MAI‑Transcribe‑1 is a speech‑to‑text model built in‑house by the Microsoft AI Superintelligence team, designed to deliver reliable transcription across 25 languages. It powers a wide range of use cases, including video captions, meeting transcription, accessibility tools, call analysis, content creation workflows, and powering voice agents. The model is optimized to be robust across diverse accents, dialects, and real‑world acoustic conditions, giving developers a transcription system they can rely on.

MAI‑Transcribe‑1 is actively under development, with new capabilities coming soon, including real‑time transcription, diarization and context biasing.

Key model capabilities

• Best-in-class accuracy across 25 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Indonesian, Russian, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese.
• Robust to real-world noisy situations.
• Automatic Language identification.