Once Upon a Prompt — AI Bedtime Stories Powered by Microsoft's New MAI Models
Yesterday, Microsoft announced three brand new MAI models — MAI-Voice-1, MAI-Image-2, and MAI-Transcribe-1 — available through Microsoft Foundry and explorable via Copilot Labs. These are Microsoft’s own in-house AI models, purpose-built for voice, image, and transcription tasks, and they’re genuinely impressive. Naturally, I had to build something with them. What is “Once Upon a Prompt”? Once Upon a Prompt is a personalised AI bedtime story generator. You tell it about your kids — their names, ages, and a few fun details — pick a story theme, and it creates a fully narrated, multi-voice story with a custom illustration. All generated in seconds. ...