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speech-2.8-hd

High-fidelity speech synthesis with sound tags and 40 languages.

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Specs

Context
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Max output
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Input price
$100/ 1M characters
Output price
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Released
2026-01-23

Context

Not published

Pricing · USD / 1M characters

Input
$100
Output
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Cache read
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Cache write
—

Modalities

Input
Text
Output
Audio

API

API types
audio

Reasoning

Reasoning
No

Info

Status
Active
Released
2026-01-23
Knowledge cutoff
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Features

Not published
Source · official docsVerified 2026-10-11

How to call

1 provider

minimaxmodel = speech-2.8-hd

audio
POSThttps://api.minimax.io/v1/t2a_v2

JSON

Standard format
speech-2.8-hd.json
{
  "id": "speech-2.8-hd",
  "object": "model",
  "created": 1769126400,
  "owned_by": "minimax",
  "name": "speech-2.8-hd",
  "api": {
    "types": [
      "audio"
    ]
  },
  "limits": {
    "context": null,
    "input": null,
    "output": null
  },
  "modalities": {
    "input": [
      "text"
    ],
    "output": [
      "audio"
    ]
  },
  "reasoning": {
    "supported": false,
    "efforts": []
  },
  "pricing": {
    "currency": "USD",
    "unit": "1M_characters",
    "input": 100,
    "output": null,
    "cache_read": null,
    "cache_write": null
  },
  "features": [],
  "info": {
    "status": "active",
    "release_date": "2026-01-23",
    "knowledge_cutoff": null,
    "description": "High-fidelity speech synthesis with sound tags and 40 languages.",
    "docs": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/api-reference/speech-t2a-http",
    "verified_at": "2026-10-11"
  }
}

Official sources

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