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MAI-Voice-2.1 from @MicrosoftAI is live on OpenRouter.
MAI-Voice-2.1 from @MicrosoftAI is live on OpenRouter.MAI's highest-fidelity, most expressive text-to-speech model yet:Studio-grade, natural speech.Same voice can speak in 23 languages while maintaining native accent.$22 per 1M charactersBuilt for audiobooks, podcasts, narration, and brand audio.https://openrouter.ai/microsoft/mai-voice-2.1