Microsoft AI’s MAI-Transcribe-2 undercuts OpenAI, Google and ElevenLabs on price and speed

Microsoft AI on Thursday released MAI-Transcribe-2 , a speech-recognition model the company says is faster, more accurate, and cheaper than anything OpenAI , Google , or ElevenLabs currently sells. Then it priced the thing at 10 cents per hour of audio. When Microsoft AI shipped the first model in this line just five months ago, it charged $0.36 an hour .