MAI-Voice-2.1
Microsoft AI’s most expressive multilingual text-to-speech model.
MAI-Voice-2.1 is Microsoft AI’s highest-fidelity text-to-speech model, speaking 23 languages across 26 locales. One voice can speak every supported language with a native accent, and voice cloning from a few seconds of audio includes built-in consent checks. Microsoft offers it in Microsoft Foundry and MAI Playground.
- Provider
- Microsoft AI
- Type
- Text-to-speech
- Released
- Oct 1, 2026
- Input
- text
- Output
- audio
- Open weights
- No
Best for
- Multimodal
- Writing
- Enterprise
Strengths
- 23 languages from one voice
- Voice cloning with consent checks
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