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Microsoft MAI-Voice-2.1 Microsoft · text-to-speech (TTS) API

861 ms median time to first audio on Cekura (read October 27, 2026); not measured by Coval, so no speed tier.

Benchmark summary: No speed tier: Coval, the source of the tiers, does not measure this model.

Microsoft MAI-Voice-2.1 is a text-to-speech (TTS) API from Microsoft, measured by one independent benchmark, Cekura.

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Speed tier

Not measured by Coval

No speed tier: Coval, the source of the tiers, does not measure this model.

Median time to first audioCoval, 30 days
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P95 time to first audio (slow turns)Coval, 30 days
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Naturalness EloSpeko
not rated
Listener Elo (95% interval)Artificial Analysis
not rated
Numbers and dates (0 to 1)Speko
not rated
List price per 1M charactersall sources
not published

Figures as of October 27, 2026. No combined score: methodology

Gradium TTS vs Microsoft MAI-Voice-2.1 Fastest TTS APIs, by speed tier

Speed

Cekura measures 861 ms (median) from sending a full sentence to the first sound (23rd lowest of the 26 models Cekura measures); it does not report a figure with text streamed word by word.

Voice quality

Speko, Artificial Analysis and Cekura do not rate its voice quality.

Accuracy

Cekura's transcribers score 85% on numbers and shorthand and 67% on codes and addresses.

Price

No list price is published by Coval, Speko, Artificial Analysis or Cekura for this model.

Benchmark measurements

Streaming

Streaming
Measured

Cekura

Time to first audio, full sentence sent at once (median)
861 ms
Numbers and shorthand
85%
Codes and addresses
67%
Read from context
73%
Medical terms
99%
Cekura benchmark
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