Microsoft AI models are now available on AI Gateway

Vercel and Microsoft AI partnered to bring MAI's latest audio models to AI Gateway, with MAI-Voice-2.1, MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash, and MAI-Transcribe-2 Streaming now available through the platform. MAI-Voice-2.1 generates expressive speech in 23 languages with consistent speaker identity across longer passages, while MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash targets lower-latency voice agents and MAI-Transcribe-2 Streaming returns partial transcripts as audio arrives. AI Gateway bills the models at their listed rates with no platform fee or markup on inference, and developers can call them via generateSpeech in AI SDK 7 or streamTranscribe for 16 kHz, 16-bit PCM audio streams.

Vercel and Microsoft AI MAI have partnered to make MAI models available on AI Gateway. AI Gateway is one of a limited number of platforms offering access to MAI models. MAI's focus on security and zero data retention ZDR align with Vercel's goal of giving AI Gateway users control over their data and transparency in how it is used for training. MAI's latest audio models https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/labs/mai are now supported on AI Gateway. MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash generate speech, while MAI-Transcribe-2 Streaming returns transcript updates as audio arrives. MAI-Voice-2.1 microsoft/mai-voice-2.1 generates expressive speech in 23 languages and keeps a consistent speaker across longer passages. Use it for narration, audiobooks, podcasts, and lessons where delivery matters from start to finish. MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash microsoft/mai-voice-2.1-flash brings the same multilingual speech generation to lower-latency interactions. It is suited to voice agents, assistants, and spoken replies that need to arrive quickly. MAI-Transcribe-2 Streaming microsoft/mai-transcribe-2-streaming returns partial transcripts while audio is still arriving. Applications can show live captions or follow a conversation as it happens, without waiting for the full recording. AI Gateway bills these models at their listed rates, with no platform fee or markup on inference. Use generateSpeech in AI SDK 7 with MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash to create a spoken response. The voice name selects Microsoft's Harper voice with the Flash model: For longer audio such as narration, use microsoft/mai-voice-2.1 . streamTranscribe takes a stream of audio chunks and returns transcript updates as the audio arrives. This example assumes microphoneStream is a ReadableStream of 16 kHz, 16-bit PCM audio: Partial transcripts can change as more audio arrives, so replace the displayed text when a new partial arrives. Explore MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/mai-voice-2.1-flash for speech generation and MAI-Transcribe-2 Streaming https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/mai-transcribe-2-streaming for live transcription. See the MAI model page https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/labs/mai for the full family, or follow the speech quickstart https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/getting-started/speech to get started. AI Gateway provides one API for calling models, tracking usage and cost, and viewing request traces. It also supports routing, retries, and failover across available providers.