MiniMax · 2024–26 · Speech 2.6/2.8

MiniMax Speech

A Chinese-origin API that quietly sits near the top of public speech arenas: HD for quality, Turbo for agents, 40+ languages, aggressive price. The clip is a public homepage demo from minimax.io, not our bench script.

Known for

Price-to-expressiveness on multilingual leaderboards.

Vendor / paper demo

MiniMax Speech (homepage) · Official MiniMax Speech homepage audio (filecdn.minimax.chat).

Vendor demo: MiniMax Speech homepage clip. Exact spoken text is not printed on the landing page; listen to the file.

Approach
Codec LM
Year / era
2024
License class
commercial
Cloning
Yes
Streaming
Yes
Emotion controls
Yes
Languages (tags)
en · zh · multilingual
Official
Source
Kokoro 82M · af_heart