MiniMax Voice Design
minimax/voice-designMiniMax Voice Design by MiniMax creates a new reusable voice from a text description of its timbre, age, and style, and returns a spoken preview.
- Base price
- $3.00USD / run
- Execution
- async
- Model type
- audio
- Input fields
- 2
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Examples
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Input
{ "prompt": "Bubbly and excitable female pop star interviewee, youthful, slightly breathless, and very enthusiastic" }
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Specifications
Pricing
- Base price
- $3 / 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/voice-design
- Execution
- async
- Base URL
- https://api.sandbase.ai
- API
- Unified Run API
- Endpoint
- /v1/run
API README
MiniMax Voice Design
Design a new reusable voice from a text description of its timbre, age, and style. The response includes the voice ID and a spoken preview.
Fields
| Field | Type | Default | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
prompt | string, required | — | Describe the voice: gender, age, timbre, accent, and mood. |
preview_text | string | — | Sentence spoken in the new voice. |
Billing
$3.00 per designed voice plus $0.03 per started 1,000 description characters.
| Request | Price |
|---|---|
| One voice | $3.00 |
Failed runs are not charged.
Prompting
- Be concrete: “warm, low female voice in her 40s, slight British accent, calm”.
Limits
- Use the returned voice ID as
voice_idin MiniMax Speech.
Also on SandBase
Related: minimax/speech/2.8/hd, minimax/speech/2.8/turbo, minimax/voice-clone.
Start building
Send your first request
OpenAI-compatible endpoint with unified authentication and usage tracking.
# The quoted heredoc keeps Unicode and shell metacharacters unchanged.
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
-X POST "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data-binary @- <<'SANDBASE_JSON'
{
"model": "minimax/voice-design",
"prompt": "Bubbly and excitable female pop star interviewee, youthful, slightly breathless, and very enthusiastic",
"preview_text": "Oh my gosh, hi. It's like so amazing to be here. This new endpoint just dropped on fal and the results have been like totally incredible. Use it now, It's gonna be like epic!"
}
SANDBASE_JSON
)
run_id=$(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 |
|---|---|---|---|
MiniMax Voice DesignThis model MiniMax | Audio | $3.00 / run | Jul 18, 2025 |
MiniMax | Audio | $0.12 / run | Oct 5, 2026 |
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Questions
FAQ
How do I call MiniMax Voice Design through SandBase?
Create a SandBase API key, then send requests with the model ID "minimax/voice-design" 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 Voice Design and the other models in the catalog; you do not need to sign up with MiniMax separately.
