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MiniMax: Speech 2.8 Turbo

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MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo is a text-to-speech model from MiniMax. It is suited for applications that generate spoken audio from text and accepts arbitrary MiniMax voice IDs.

Modalities

Price

$60/M characters

Released

Jul 16, 2026

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Playground

Providers

This model is hosted by one provider. OpenRouter forwards every request to it directly — no routing decisions to make.

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

Quick Start

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

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Availability (3d)

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Frequently asked questions

MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo is a text-to-speech model from MiniMax. It is suited for applications that generate spoken audio from text and accepts arbitrary MiniMax voice IDs.

Speech 2.8 Turbo costs $60.00/M characters.

Speech 2.8 Turbo ships 45 voices. Pass a voice ID in the voice field of a text-to-speech request; the IDs this endpoint accepts are listed with the model in the models API.

Speech 2.8 Turbo accepts text as input and returns generated speech audio.

Speech 2.8 HD is another speech model from MiniMax.

Speech 2.8 Turbo was released on July 16, 2026.