MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo
minimax/speech/2.8/turboMiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo by MiniMax converts text into expressive speech in 40+ languages with low latency, system or cloned voices, and emotion control.
- Base price
- $0.06USD / run
- Execution
- async
- Model type
- audio
- Input fields
- 12
Try the model
Playground
Your output will appear here
Complete the inputs, then click Run.
Model card
Specifications
Pricing
- Base price
- $0.06 / run
Context & modalities
- Input
- Schema-defined
- Output
- audio
Capabilities
- Chat
- Not supported
- Vision
- Not supported
- Reasoning
- Not supported
- Structured output
- Not supported
- Function calling
- Not supported
- Audio input
- Not supported
Access
- Provider
- MiniMax
- Model ID
- minimax/speech/2.8/turbo
- Execution
- async
- Base URL
- https://api.sandbase.ai
- API
- Unified Run API
- Endpoint
- /v1/run
API README
MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo
MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo: low-latency speech in 40+ languages with system or cloned voices, emotion control, and pitch, speed, and volume adjustment.
Fields
| Field | Type | Default | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
text | string, required | Hello, welcome to Sandbase | Text to speak. |
voice_id | string, required | Wise_Woman | System voice or a cloned voice ID from minimax/voice-clone. |
speed | number 0.5–2 | 1 | 0.5–2× speaking rate. |
volume | number 0.1–10 | 1 | Loudness multiplier. |
pitch | integer -12–12 | 0 | Semitones, −12 to 12. |
emotion | happy / sad / angry / fearful / disgusted / surprised / neutral | happy | Delivery emotion. |
english_normalization | boolean | false | Improves performance in number-reading scenarios. |
sample_rate | 8000 / 16000 / 22050 / 24000 / 32000 / 44100 | — | Sample rate of generated sound. |
bitrate | 32000 / 64000 / 128000 / 256000 | — | Bitrate of generated sound. |
channel | 1 / 2 | — | The number of channels. |
format | mp3 / pcm / flac | — | Format of generated sound. |
language_boost | 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 | — | Improve pronunciation for a specific language. |
Billing
$0.06 per 1,000 characters, billed per character.
| Text | Price |
|---|---|
| 200 characters | $0.012 |
| 1,000 characters | $0.06 |
| 5,000 characters | $0.30 |
Failed runs are not charged.
Prompting
- Use punctuation for pauses; MiniMax also reads pause tags such as
<#0.5#>.
Also on SandBase
Related: minimax/speech/2.8/hd, minimax/speech/2.6/hd, minimax/speech/2.6/turbo, minimax/voice-clone, minimax/voice-design.
Start building
Send your first request
OpenAI-compatible endpoint with unified authentication and usage tracking.
# The quoted heredoc keeps Unicode and shell metacharacters unchanged.
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
-X POST "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data-binary @- <<'SANDBASE_JSON'
{
"model": "minimax/speech/2.8/turbo",
"text": "Hello, welcome to Sandbase",
"pitch": 0,
"speed": 1,
"volume": 1,
"emotion": "happy",
"voice_id": "Wise_Woman",
"english_normalization": false
}
SANDBASE_JSON
)
run_id=$(printf '%s' "$result" | jq -r .id)
for attempt in $(seq 1 120); do
status=$(printf '%s' "$result" | jq -r .status)
case "$status" in completed|failed|timeout) break ;; esac
sleep 2
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
"https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run/$run_id")
done
status=$(printf '%s' "$result" | jq -r .status)
[ "$status" = completed ] || { echo "Generation ended: $status" >&2; exit 1; }
printf '%s\n' "$result"Choose your model
Compare models
| Model | Type | Default price | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
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Questions
FAQ
How do I call MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo through SandBase?
Create a SandBase API key, then send requests with the model ID "minimax/speech/2.8/turbo" to Unified Run API (/v1/run) at https://api.sandbase.ai. The request examples on this page show the exact payload.
Do I need a separate MiniMax account?
No. One SandBase API key and balance gives you access to MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo and the other models in the catalog; you do not need to sign up with MiniMax separately.
