MiniMax Speech 2.8 (HD / Turbo)
speech-2.6 and speech-02 are legacy at the same prices. MiniMax also offers ASR (0.38 USD/hour). Music: music-3.0 API closed to new users from 2026-08-20; open weights MiniMax-Music3 on HF.
- Input
- text
- Output
- audio
- License
- proprietary
- Pricing
- per million characters hd: $100 · per million characters turbo: $60 (USD per 1M characters (sync and async T2A). Voice clone 1.5 USD/voice, voice design 3 USD/voice) source
- Verified
- 2026-09-29
How to call it
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint / URL | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| MiniMax API (T2A HTTP / WebSocket / async) | speech-2.8-hd | https://api.minimax.io | docs |
| MiniMax API | speech-2.8-turbo | https://api.minimax.io | docs |
| Web app (MiniMax Audio) | — | www.minimax.io/audio | — |
Notable capabilities (3)
- Sound tags: Natural sound tags (non-verbal cues) in ultra-realistic HD speech. source
- 40 languages, 7 emotions: 40 languages plus specified dialects, 7 emotions; rapid voice cloning and text-described voice design. source
- Streaming and long-form modes: Sync HTTP, WebSocket and bidirectional streaming (pipe LLM tokens straight to speech), plus async jobs up to 1M characters. source
MiniMax's current TTS: expressive multilingual voices, cloning and real-time streaming for agents, audiobooks and dubbing.
Sources: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/models-intro · https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/pricing-paygo · https://platform.minimax.io/docs/api-reference/speech-t2a-http