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# We partnered with @MicrosoftAI to bring their secure, transparent, and cost-efficient models to AI Gateway.

## Retrieval answer

Thesis: The integration makes Microsoft AI audio models accessible through Vercel AI Gateway, adding a managed route for speech generation and streaming transcription.

Thesis: The integration makes Microsoft AI audio models accessible through Vercel AI Gateway, adding a managed route for speech generation and streaming transcription.

Observed facts: Vercel lists MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash for speech generation, and MAI-Transcribe-2 Streaming for partial transcript updates as audio arrives. Its changelog includes AI SDK examples using `generateSpeech` and `streamTranscribe`, and says Gateway charges listed rates without platform fee or inference markup. These are facts about the published offer and examples, not evidence of comparative quality.

Mechanism: Applications can call the named models through AI Gateway and use the SDK’s speech-generation or streaming-transcription functions. Partial transcript updates let an interface display interim text while audio is still arriving; the source cautions that partials can change and should be replaced as new ones arrive. Why now: Vercel has announced the models as now available, so developers evaluating voice features can consider this route in current implementation work.

Implications: Teams already using AI Gateway can evaluate speech output and live transcription without integrating a separate provider path described in this announcement. The stated no-markup billing may simplify cost accounting, but does not establish that the models are cheaper overall. Evidence boundary: The source is Vercel’s changelog and documents availability, examples, and billing terms; its security and zero-data-retention language is partner positioning, not independent validation, and it provides no benchmark or deployment outcome.

Watch conditions: Check for independent latency, transcription accuracy, language coverage, and cost comparisons under representative workloads, and verify retention and security terms against applicable documentation before choosing a production workflow.

Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json

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