MAI-Voice-2-Flash Offers Double Speed and 32% Cost Reduction in New AI Voice Model

The company has released MAI-Voice-2-Flash, an upgraded artificial intelligence text-to-speech model offering significant performance improvements. The new version operates at twice the speed of its predecessor while cutting costs by 32%, priced at $15 per million characters. The model is now in public preview and powers Dynamics 365 Contact Center, an enterprise platform for customer contact operations. The company reports that adoption can reduce GPU consumption by up to 89%.