minimax/preview/speech-2.5-turbo

Name: MiniMax Speech 2.5 Turbo
Author: MiniMax

Preview Speech 2.5 Turbo by MiniMax - convert text to natural-sounding speech with AI. Supports multiple voices, languages, emotions, and speaking styles for content creation and accessibility.

Input

Text(string)

Text to convert to speech (max 5000 characters, minimum 1 non-whitespace character)

Output Format(string)

Format of the output content (non-streaming only) Allowed values: url, hex.

Pronunciation Dict(string)

Custom pronunciation dictionary for text replacement

Audio Setting(string)

Audio configuration settings

Language Boost(string)

Enhance recognition of specified languages and dialects Allowed values: Persian, Filipino, Tamil, Chinese, Chinese,Yue, English, Arabic, Russian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Turkish, Dutch, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Japanese, Italian, Korean, Thai, Polish, Romanian, Greek, Czech, Finnish, Hindi, Bulgarian, Danish, Hebrew, Malay, Slovak, Swedish, Croatian, Hungarian, Norwegian, Slovenian, Catalan, Nynorsk, Afrikaans, auto.

Voice Setting(string)

Voice configuration settings

Idle

Example output — click Run to generate your own

Production endpoint

Send your first request

OpenAI-compatible endpoint with unified authentication and usage tracking.

POSThttps://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run

Model IDminimax/preview/speech-2.5-turbo

Input Schema

6 parameters · 0 required · 6 optional

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`text`	string	Optional	Text to convert to speech (max 5000 characters, minimum 1 non-whitespace character) · Min length: 1 · Max length: 5000 · Default: "Hello, welcome to Sandbase"
`audio_setting`	string	Optional	Audio configuration settings
`output_format`	string	Optional	Format of the output content (non-streaming only) · Options: url, hex · Default: "hex" urlhex
`voice_setting`	string	Optional	Voice configuration settings · Default: {"vol":1,"pitch":0,"speed":1,"voice_id":"Wise_Woman","english_normalization":false}
`language_boost`	string	Optional	Enhance recognition of specified languages and dialects · Options: Persian, Filipino, Tamil, Chinese, Chinese,Yue, English, Arabic, Russian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Turkish, Dutch, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Japanese, Italian, Korean, Thai, Polish, Romanian, Greek, Czech, Finnish, Hindi, Bulgarian, Danish, Hebrew, Malay, Slovak, Swedish, Croatian, Hungarian, Norwegian, Slovenian, Catalan, Nynorsk, Afrikaans, auto PersianFilipinoTamilChineseChinese,YueEnglishArabicRussianSpanishFrenchPortugueseGermanTurkishDutchUkrainianVietnameseIndonesianJapaneseItalianKoreanThaiPolishRomanianGreekCzechFinnishHindiBulgarianDanishHebrewMalaySlovakSwedishCroatianHungarianNorwegianSlovenianCatalanNynorskAfrikaansauto
`pronunciation_dict`	string	Optional	Custom pronunciation dictionary for text replacement

Output Schema

Field	Type	Description
`id`	string	Unique identifier for the generation task
`status`	string	Task status: pending, running, completed, failed, timeout
`model`	string	Model used for the generation
`outputs`	array	Array of output items
`outputs[].url`	string	URL of the generated artifact
`outputs[].content_type`	string	MIME type (e.g. image/png, video/mp4)
`error`	object \| null	Error details if failed, null on success
`error.type`	string	Machine-readable error type code
`error.message`	string	Human-readable error description

Async Workflow

This model uses asynchronous execution. Submit a request and poll for the result.

Submit — POST to /v1/run, receive an id
Poll — GET /v1/run/{id} until status is completed, failed, or timeout
Retrieve — Read outputs from the completed response

Code Examples

Ready-to-run snippets

# Step 1: Submit
curl -X POST https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "minimax/preview/speech-2.5-turbo",
  "text": "Hello world! This is a test of the text-to-speech system.",
  "output_format": "hex",
  "voice_setting": {
    "vol": 1,
    "pitch": 0,
    "speed": 1,
    "voice_id": "Wise_Woman",
    "english_normalization": false
  },
  "prompt": "a beautiful sunset over mountains"
}'

# Step 2: Poll result (replace <id>)
curl https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run/<id> \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

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API README

Preview Speech 2.5 Turbo

Preview Speech 2.5 Turbo is built for expressive speech synthesis, with this exact route focused on voice and delivery control. Preview Speech 2.5 Turbo by MiniMax - convert text to natural-sounding speech with AI. Supports multiple voices, languages, emotions, and speaking styles for content creation and accessibility. It is designed for production workflows that need a clearly scoped media operation instead of a generic assistant response, preserving the supplied direction while returning an artifact ready for review, iteration, or downstream assembly.

The request surface keeps creative direction and delivery choices explicit through text, audio_setting, output_format, voice_setting, language_boost, pronunciation_dict. Teams can lock source material, describe the intended result, choose supported output controls, and rerun the same request structure across variations. This makes experiments easier to compare and larger pipelines easier to operate without hiding important decisions inside an opaque preset.

Highlights

Voice And Delivery Control. The minimax/preview/speech-2.5-turbo route is dedicated to voice and delivery control, keeping inputs and outputs matched to this operation.
Multilingual Spoken Content. Within minimax/preview/speech-2.5-turbo, documented prompt and media controls direct multilingual spoken content while keeping the brief close to the result.
Natural Long-Form Narration. The minimax/preview/speech-2.5-turbo result provides natural long-form narration in a machine-consumable form for review and downstream production.
Route-specific control. For minimax/preview/speech-2.5-turbo, documented controls include text, audio_setting, output_format, voice_setting, language_boost, pronunciation_dict, defining the supported variation space for this exact route.

Pricing

Configuration	Price
Per request	`$0.060000`

When to Use

Scenario	Why it fits
Choose this route	When the deliverable is specifically voice and delivery control, not a neighboring generation or editing task.
Production iteration	When creative teams need repeatable multilingual spoken content with an explicit request payload.
Automated pipelines	When natural long-form narration must flow into review, storage, compositing, or publishing.
Controlled variations	When a stable brief should be rerun while changing only documented inputs.
Prototype to scale	When the same `minimax/preview/speech-2.5-turbo` contract should serve a single experiment and a larger batch later.

Prompt Guide

Lead with the subject or source, then state the transformation, important spatial or temporal details, style, and finish. Supply only documented fields, keep media URLs reachable, and vary one control at a time when comparing outputs.

{
  "text": "A directed creative request with subject, setting, style, motion, and finish.",
  "audio_setting": "https://example.com/source.wav"
}

Technical Specs

Property	Value
Model ID	`minimax/preview/speech-2.5-turbo`
Required inputs	None documented
`text`	string
`audio_setting`	object
`output_format`	string; options: url, hex; default: hex
`voice_setting`	object
`language_boost`	string
`pronunciation_dict`	object
`sync_mode`	boolean; default: false
`safety_tolerance`	string; default: 6

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