Microsoft MAI-Voice-2

What it does

Microsoft's most expressive TTS model yet — voice cloning from short samples, fine-grained emotional control, and consistent voice identity across 15 languages. Now live in Azure AI Foundry at $22 per million characters, with integrations rolling out in VSCode, Dynamics 365 Contact Center, and Teams. For builders shipping voice agents who need production-grade prosody without the OpenAI Realtime API price tag.

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