MiniMax · Proprietary · Read 2026-10-27
MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD: latency, voice quality, price and languages
- Rank
- not ranked
- Speed tier
- n/a
- P95
- n/a
- Price / 1M chars
- $100
MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD is a proprietary text-to-speech model from MiniMax. Coval does not measure its latency, so it has no speed tier and no rank. Artificial Analysis or Speko tested it in 11 languages.
This summary is generated from the measures below; it is not a vendor description. Measures a source does not hold are shown as n/a and are never estimated.
Speed (Coval, 30 days, US East, English)
| Speed tier | n/a |
| Median time to first audio | n/a |
| P90 | n/a |
| P95 | n/a |
| Mean | n/a |
| Standard deviation | n/a |
| Calls in the window | n/a |
| Cekura median, streamed text | n/a |
| Cekura median, full text | n/a |
Voice quality (never added together)
| Listener Elo (Artificial Analysis) | 1,174 ±10 |
| Customer-service Elo (Artificial Analysis) | 1,173 ±23 |
| Naturalness (Speko) | 1,431 |
| Naturalness estimate (Cekura, 1 to 5) | n/a |
Accuracy
| Reading accuracy (Cekura) | n/a |
| Numbers (Cekura) | n/a |
| Codes (Cekura) | n/a |
| Context (Cekura) | n/a |
| Medical terms (Cekura) | n/a |
| Hard passages judged correct (Artificial Analysis) | 73.6% |
| Numbers and dates (Speko score) | 0.15 |
| Word error rate (Coval) | n/a |
Price per 1 million characters
| Range across sources | $100 |
| Artificial Analysis | $100 |
| Speko | $100 |
| Coval | n/a |
| Cekura | n/a |
Coverage
| Access | Proprietary |
| Streaming | Measured |
| Coval tags | n/a |
| Rated for | Knowledge sharing, Assistants, Entertainment, Customer service |
| Languages tested | Arabic, Chinese, Filipino, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese |
Not collected
- Speed (Coval median time to first audio): not measured by Coval (reading of 2026-10-27, 30-day window)
- Speed (Coval P95 time to first audio): not measured by Coval (reading of 2026-10-27, 30-day window)
Sources
- https://artificialanalysis.ai/text-to-speech (read 2026-10-27)
- https://artificialanalysis.ai/text-to-speech/leaderboard/provider-voice (read 2026-10-27)
- https://benchmarks.speko.ai/tts/ (read 2026-10-27)
- Vendor site: https://www.minimax.io/
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Frequently asked questions
- How fast is MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD?
- Coval does not measure MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD, so no latency is published here.
- How much does MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD cost?
- The benchmarks print a list price of $100 per million characters for MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD.
- Which languages was MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD tested in?
- Artificial Analysis or Speko tested MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD in Arabic, Chinese, Filipino, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese.