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Release2026-08-02

Microsoft's MAI Playground has surfaced a hidden early-access entry for MAI Realtime, described as the company's first native full-duplex speech-to-speech model, apparently available to a small group of partners. The listing indicates support for 17 languages including English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Dutch, Hindi, Indonesian, Arabic, Russian, Turkish, Vietnamese and Thai, with two voices named Victoria and Grant, automatic or pinned language selection, and mid-conversation language switching. Turn-taking can be configured either through a Switchboard mode using an MAI-Ears endpointer with inline control tokens or a deterministic setup combining silence-based endpointing with a Whisper semantic endpointer; a debug panel exposes latency, model thoughts and processing steps. The model does not sing or generate non-speech audio.

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