Microsoft’s new voice AI can start working out what you want before you finish speaking
The New Stack Adrian Bridgwater
Microsoft released three voice-focused MAI models in Microsoft Foundry, including streaming transcription and fast multilingual text-to-speech options. The streaming transcription outputs partial hypotheses within the low hundreds of milliseconds after receiving audio. This enables voice applications to start acting before a caller finishes speaking, reducing end-to-end delays but increasing the need to improve turn-taking together with latency.
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