Audience
Developers and organizations building multilingual speech-enabled products, including narration and audiobook services, voice assistants, and customer-service or call-center experiences.
About MAI-Voice-2.1
MAI-Voice-2.1 is Microsoft's hosted text-to-speech model for developers building voice-enabled products. It generates expressive speech from text, supports multilingual output across 23 languages, and offers emotion and style controls, long-form speaker consistency, and gated matching to consented reference voices. Developers access it through Microsoft Foundry and Azure Speech APIs and SDKs for narration, audiobooks, voice assistants, and customer-service experiences.
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Pricing
Starting Price:
$22/1M characters
Pricing Details:
Usage-based at $22 per 1 million characters of generated speech.
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Microsoft
Founded: 1975
United States
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MAI-Voice-2.1 Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What kinds of users and organization types does MAI-Voice-2.1 work with?
MAI-Voice-2.1 works with these users and organization types: Mid Size Business, Small Business, Enterprise, Freelance, Nonprofit, Government, and Startup.
Q: What languages does MAI-Voice-2.1 support in their product?
MAI-Voice-2.1 supports these languages: Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese.
Q: What other applications or services does MAI-Voice-2.1 integrate with?
MAI-Voice-2.1 integrates with: Azure AI Speech.
Q: Does MAI-Voice-2.1 have an API?
Yes, MAI-Voice-2.1 has an API.
Q: How much does MAI-Voice-2.1 cost?
Pricing for MAI-Voice-2.1 starts at $22/1M characters.
