Maya 2 Flash
Listed Proprietary · Maya Research
4.8
/100
Maya 2 Flash is a proprietary text-to-speech (TTS) API from Maya Research, measured by one independent benchmark, Artificial Analysis.
Artificial Analysis
Microsoft Azure Neural Microsoft · text-to-speech (TTS) API
ListedSpeech Arena Elo 1,033 on Artificial Analysis, latency not measured; ranked 80th (tied) of 112 in the TTS for Voice Agents 2026 index.
Benchmark summary: 4.8/100, ranked 80th (tied) of 112 in the TTS for Voice Agents 2026 index (Listed). Strongest criterion: price, 1.8 of 5 points.
Microsoft Azure Neural is a proprietary text-to-speech (TTS) API from Microsoft, measured by one independent benchmark, Artificial Analysis.
Overall score
4.8 /100
Score breakdown
- Real-time speed 0 /60
- Voice quality 3 /20
- Accuracy 0 /15
- Price 1.8 /5
Data checked on September 30, 2026
Updated after each benchmark capture
Every point comes from a public benchmark: sources · methodology
Microsoft Azure Neural ranks 80th of 112 in the 2026 text-to-speech (TTS) API benchmark, with a score of 4.8/100.
Real-time latency
Neither Coval nor Speko measures Microsoft Azure Neural's latency, so it scores 0 of 60 on real-time speed and does not appear in the real-time ranking.
Accuracy (word error rate)
No accuracy measurement: Coval does not measure its word error rate and Speko does not rate its pronunciation robustness, so accuracy counts 0 of 15.
Voice quality
In the Artificial Analysis Speech Arena (capture of October 1, 2026), Microsoft Azure Neural has an Elo of 1,033 (±19, 95% confidence) from 1,158 blind comparisons, 65th highest of the 92 models Artificial Analysis rates.
Price
Artificial Analysis lists Microsoft Azure Neural at $15 per 1M characters (19th lowest of the 78 models Artificial Analysis lists a price for).
Benchmark measurements
Artificial Analysis Speech Arena
- Speech Arena Elo (blind listener preference)
- 1,033
- Elo 95% interval (±)
- 19
- Arena rank
- 65
- Arena rank range
- 58-73
- Arena appearances
- 1,158
- Voices tested
- 8
- Price per 1M characters
- 15 USD
- Released
- Sept 2018
- Artificial Analysis model
- Azure Neural
- Artificial Analysis leaderboard
- artificialanalysis.ai
Not collected
- Speed (Coval time to first audio) — not measured by Coval (capture of 2026-10-01, 30-day window); counts 0
- Speed (Speko time to first audio) — not measured by Speko (capture of 2026-10-01); counts 0
- Quality (Speko naturalness) — not measured by Speko (capture of 2026-10-01); counts 0
- Accuracy (Coval word error rate) — not measured by Coval (capture of 2026-10-01, 30-day window); counts 0
- Accuracy (Speko robustness) — not measured by Speko (capture of 2026-10-01); counts 0
- Price (Speko cost per 1M characters) — not measured by Speko (capture of 2026-10-01); counts 0
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