- 🔊 High-definition text-to-speech voice synthesis
- 🏢 Built by AI lab MiniMax
- 🎯 The "HD" tier tuned for audio fidelity
- 🎨 Natural, expressive spoken-voice generation
- 💬 Turns written text into lifelike speech
MiniMax is an AI company building generative models across multiple modalities, with a focus that spans both language understanding and audio creation. Their rapid release cadence in early 2026—delivering several new models within just a few months—reflects an ambitious and…
Explore 10 more models by Minimax →MiniMax Speech-02 HD is MiniMax's high-definition text-to-speech engine, converting written input into natural, expressive spoken audio. The "HD" designation points to its emphasis on output fidelity and clarity, making it suited to use cases where voice quality matters — narration, audiobooks, voiceovers, and conversational interfaces — rather than the lowest-latency real-time scenarios.
Released in April 2026, it is the current incumbent of MiniMax's Speech-02 HD line and sits alongside the provider's broader catalogue, which spans the MiniMax M3 family of text models and the Music 2.6 generation engine. Within that lineup, Speech-02 HD is MiniMax's dedicated voice-synthesis offering, complementing the company's reasoning and creative-audio work with a focus purely on spoken output.
For builders, it is best reached for when you need polished, lifelike speech from text — think published-quality narration and branded voice experiences — where the extra audio detail of the HD tier earns its place over faster, lower-fidelity alternatives.
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Daily usage · MiniMax Speech-02 HD · Organic sellers
| Seller | Health | Rep↓ | Sales | Routing | $ / 1M chars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venice.ai Proxy 0x1f22…18c9 | healthy | 86.84 | $0.54 | #1 | $68.75 |
| ▲ Apex Ant 0x73b4…e736 | — | 81.71 | — | #2 | $62.50 |
"Best price" and the seller table are live Antseed catalog data (advertised $/1M tokens — or $ per generated image for unit-billed image models — not settled amounts). Reputation = buyer trust score (0-100, the Antseed SDK's own formula). "Routing" = the SDK's default buyer routing (what the VPR desktop app ships with): a trust ≥ 60 gate on the effective reputation, then cheapest-first among routable sellers; live failover state (per-peer cooldowns) is buyer-side runtime and not included. Model knowledge (TLDR, provider, About) via the VeniceStats enrichment layer. Advertised catalog, not the model used in any specific purchase. "Usage on Antseed" counts only settlements whose buyers share the per-model split on-chain (metadata v2/v3, opt-in), so every usage figure is a lower bound.