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Speech 2.8 HD

MiniMax's high-definition text-to-speech model line with voice cloning, available via API and MiniMax Audio.

  • MiniMax
  • Closed
  • Released 14 Feb 2026

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Where it ranks

  • B
    Text to speech
    Models · Cloud · 1,174 on Artificial Analysis Speech Arena: Text to Speech (provider voices)

Facts

Vendor
MiniMax
Family
MiniMax Speech
Released
14 Feb 2026
Weights
Closed: API and apps only
License
proprietary
API price
$100 per 1M characters (Artificial Analysis normalised price for Speech 2.8 HD (USD per 1M characters).)
Last verified
18 Oct 2026

Price from artificialanalysis.ai, 18 Oct 2026.

Benchmark results

BenchmarkResultEntry on the leaderboardAs ofSource
Artificial Analysis Speech Arena: Text to Speech (provider voices)1,174Speech 2.8 HD
Provider Voice Arena, all categories and accents; rank 22 of 96, 5043 appearances, 95% CI ±11; raw value from the page's embedded data (shown rounded); no last-updated date shown, so as_of = retrieval date.
18 Oct 2026artificialanalysis.ai
TTS Arena V2 (Hugging Face Space)1,535MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD
Bradley-Terry rating ±30, 503 votes, board rank 7 (the board sorts by the lower bound of the interval); read from the arena's public JSON endpoint, which feeds https://huggingface.co/spaces/TTS-AGI/TTS-Arena-V2.
18 Oct 2026tts-agi-tts-arena-v2.hf.space

Where you can use it

No tracked tool lists this model yet.

Earlier versions

  • Speech 2.6 HD · 30 Oct 2025
  • Speech-02-HD · 31 Mar 2025

Sources