David AI releases DAI-ASR-I18N benchmark; Microsoft's MAI-Transcribe-2 ranks first

David AI releases DAI-ASR-I18N, a speech recognition and speaker diarization benchmark that tests 14 systems on natural, unscripted conversation in 21 languages.

Microsoft AI says its MAI-Transcribe-2 ranks first for transcription accuracy on the benchmark, with the lowest error rate in 18 of the 21 languages. The ranking comes from Microsoft AI's own post on X; the report does not include David AI's own results or the error rates behind the claim.