Speech 02
minimax/speech-02Production text-to-speech with expressive multilingual voices, priced per character.
Model overview
Unit price
—
quoted on request
Output price
—
quoted on request
Weekly volume
—
tokens / week
Open weights
No
API only
Capabilities
1
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Description
Speech 02 is a speech model from MiniMax. Webparam does not stock this model yet and can source it on request — tell us what you need it for and we will come back with availability and a price. MiniMax’s stated focus is multimodal breadth: text, video, speech. The weights are not published, so it is API-only.
Capabilities
- Streaming
- Emits tokens as they are generated, so answers appear progressively rather than all at once.
Strengths & weaknesses
Strengths
- Expressive, natural voices
- Wide language coverage
- Streaming synthesis
Weaknesses
- Voice cloning requires separate approval
- English slightly behind dedicated Western TTS
Pricing
| Rate | Price | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Unit price | — quoted on request | — |
This model is not provisioned yet; the rate is quoted on request.
Supported features
| Feature | Support |
|---|---|
| Tool calling | Not supported |
| JSON mode | Not supported |
| Streaming | Supported |
| Vision input | Not supported |
| Audio input | Not supported |
| Long context | Not supported |
| Open weights | Not supported |
| Reasoning | Not supported |
| Fine-tunable | Not supported |
| Batch | Not supported |
| Caching | Not supported |
Example use cases
Voice agents
Audiobook narration
Product voiceovers
Comparison
Compare against anything →| Attribute | Speech 02 | Voxtral | Hailuo Video 02 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input price | R0.00 | R0.00 | R0.00 |
| Output price | — not charged | — not charged | — not charged |
| Tool calling | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported |
| JSON mode | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported |
| Vision input | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported |
| Open weights | Not supported | Supported | Not supported |
| Prompt caching | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported |
Best value in each row is highlighted. Blank cells are facts the supplier does not publish, not zeroes.
Provider information
View MiniMax →MiniMax · 稀宇科技 · Shanghai, China · est. 2021
MiniMax builds across more modalities than almost any peer, million-token text models, the Hailuo video line, and production-grade speech synthesis. Its M-series brought efficient open reasoning to the mix, rounding out one of the most complete catalogues in the ecosystem.
Recent releases
Documentation
Frequently asked questions
Usage is billed at R0.00 per 1M characters. Every figure on this page is an illustrative placeholder.
No. Speech 02 is served through its provider's API only; the weights are not published, so self-hosting is not an option.
Voxtral is the closest neighbour in the catalogue, with — of context at R0.00 per 1M characters in. Put both in a comparison before wiring a fallback chain, so the trade-off is a decision rather than a default.