By the Tech Desk Published: June 2026 Main Facts: The End of an Era for JavaScript-Only Block Development More than seven and a half years after the Gutenberg block editor fundamentally altered the WordPress landscape, core developers have rolled out one of the most anticipated—and debated—features in the platform’s history. WordPress 7.0 officially introduces PHP-only […]
Microsoft AI Introduces MAI-Transcribe-1.5: 2.4% WER on Artificial Analysis, Best-in-Class FLEURS Accuracy, and Up to 5x Faster Long-Audio Transcription
Last week Microsoft AI has announced MAI-Transcribe-1.5. It is the second iteration of the company’s in-house speech-to-text family. The model targets accuracy across 43 languages, accents, and noisy environments. The Microsoft team positions it for production transcription workloads. What is MAI-Transcribe-1.5 MAI-Transcribe-1.5 is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model. It takes audio as input and […]