Microsoft’s move to ship MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview marks a clear strategic inflection: the company is no longer only a buyer and integrator of frontier models but a serious producer of first‑party models engineered to run inside Copilot and across Microsoft’s consumer surfaces. Microsoft...
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In a significant leap forward for voice technology, Microsoft has unveiled a major upgrade to Azure AI Speech that dramatically reduces the amount of audio required to clone a human voice. With the introduction of the DragonV2.1Neural zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) model, users now need only a...
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