MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash
Model Information
| Slug | mai-voice-2-1-flash |
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| LLMs.txt | View |
| Release Date | October 1, 2026 New |
Organization
| Name | microsoft |
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| Website | https://ai.azure.com/ |
Model Description
MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash is a low-latency text-to-speech model from Microsoft AI, optimized for real-time responsiveness. It produces natural, expressive speech across 23 languages, with human-like intonation, rhythm, and emotional nuance. It is suited for voice agents, assistants, call centers, and other interactive applications where latency and cost matter most.
On OpenRouter, set `voice` to a full voice ID with the model suffix, such as `"en-US-Harper:MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash"`. 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 API](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models?output_modalities=speech). See the [text-to-speech guide](https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/overview/multimodal/tts).
On OpenRouter, set `voice` to a full voice ID with the model suffix, such as `"en-US-Harper:MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash"`. 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 API](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models?output_modalities=speech). See the [text-to-speech guide](https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/overview/multimodal/tts).
Available at 2 Providers
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Code
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MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash
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microsoft/mai-voice-2.1-flash
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$15.00 | $0.00 | ||
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Vercel AI Gateway |
MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash
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microsoft/mai-voice-2.1-flash
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$15.00 | - |