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Microsoft AI: MAI-Voice-2.1

microsoft/mai-voice-2.1

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MAI-Voice-2.1 is Microsoft AI's highest-fidelity, most expressive text-to-speech model. It produces natural, studio-grade speech across 23 languages, with detailed prosody, nuanced expressiveness, and speaker consistency over long-form content. It is suited for audiobooks, podcasts, lectures, narration, and brand audio where maximum voice quality matters. The model prioritizes naturalness and expressivity over latency-critical generation.

On OpenRouter, set voice to a full voice ID with the model suffix, such as "en-US-Harper:MAI-Voice-2.1". A voice's locale sets the synthesis language. Set response_format to "mp3" or "pcm" (24 kHz mono). Harper and Grant support the agent, customer-call-center, educational, and narrator speaking styles, and many locale voices add emotion styles such as excited, happy, sad, and whispering. The full list of voices is in the supported_voices field of the models APIOpens in new tab. See the text-to-speech guideOpens in new tab.

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Price
$22/M characters
Released
Oct 1, 2026
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Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.

Providers

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Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Apps

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Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

API

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

Not currently available through EU in-region routing. In-region routing docs

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Frequently asked questions

MAI-Voice-2.1 is Microsoft AI's highest-fidelity, most expressive text-to-speech model. It produces natural, studio-grade speech across 23 languages, with detailed prosody, nuanced expressiveness, and speaker consistency over long-form content. It is suited for audiobooks, podcasts, lectures, narration, and brand audio where maximum voice quality matters.

MAI-Voice-2.1 costs $22.00/M characters.

MAI-Voice-2.1 ships 97 voices. Pass a voice ID in the voice field of a text-to-speech request; the IDs this endpoint accepts are listed with the model in the models API.

MAI-Voice-2.1 accepts text as input and returns generated speech audio.

MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash, MAI-Voice-2-Flash, and MAI-Voice-2 are other speech models from Microsoft.

MAI-Voice-2.1 was released on October 1, 2026.