MiniMax Speech-02 HD
High-definition text-to-speech with emotional control, voice customization, and multilingual support — optimized for audiobooks and voiceovers.
Overview
What is MiniMax Speech-02 HD
MiniMax Speech-02 HD is a high-definition text-to-speech model developed by MiniMax, released in April 2025. It delivers studio-quality audio with emotional expression and support for 32 languages, making it ideal for audiobooks, voiceovers, and multilingual narration.
Running it privately on Venice
On Venice, MiniMax Speech-02 HD runs under an anonymized privacy tier — your prompts are never stored or profiled. This means you can generate high-fidelity speech without sacrificing privacy, with full control over voice, tone, and emotion, all while avoiding Big Tech's surveillance pipelines.
Assessment
Strengths and limitations
- Studio-quality audio ideal for audiobooks, voiceovers, and professional narration.
- Supports 32 languages with native accents, including Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, and European languages.
- Fine-grained emotional control: set tone to happy, sad, angry, fearful, surprised, or neutral.
- Adjustable speed, pitch, and volume for full expressive control.
- Proprietary and closed: no open weights, so self-hosting or fine-tuning is not possible.
- Higher cost per character compared to budget TTS models on Venice.
- Not optimized for ultra-low-latency real-time use — better suited for pre-rendered content.
Samples
Sample outputs
Generated on Venice with our standard prompt suite — the same scripts we run through every model of this type, so you can judge it like-for-like.
“On Venice, your prompts are processed privately and never stored, profiled, or used to train anyone's model.”
“Wait — so I can run a private voice model with zero data retention, and pay only for what I use? That's genuinely useful.”
“Three… two… one… liftoff! The rocket roared into the night sky as the crowd erupted in cheers.”
Specifications
Datasheet
- Maker
- MiniMax
- Released
- April 2025
- Modality
- Text-to-speech
- Languages
- 32
- Emotion control
- Yes — happy, sad, neutral, angry, fearful, surprised
- Preset voices
- 300+
- Open weights
- No — proprietary
- Privacy on Venice
- Anonymized — prompts not stored
- Available on Venice since
- Apr 2026
- License
- Proprietary
API
Call it from your code
Venice exposes an OpenAI-compatible API. Point your base URL at Venice and pass the model id.
curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/audio/speech \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "tts-minimax-speech-02-hd",
"input": "On Venice, your prompts are processed privately.",
"voice": "af_sky",
"response_format": "mp3"
}' --output speech.mp3Pricing
What it costs on Venice
Billed per character on Venice: $125 per 1M characters of synthesized speech.
New Venice accounts include a free daily allowance and 500 welcome credits — no credit card required.
Alternatives
How it compares
| Model | Best for | Price / 1M chars | Languages | Open weights |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MiniMax Speech-02 HD | High-fidelity TTS with emotional depth and strong multilingual support. | $125 / 1M chars | 32 | No |
| ElevenLabs Turbo v2.5 | Lower latency and better English voice variety, but less strong in Asian languages. | $62.50 / 1M chars | 32 | No |
| Inworld TTS-1.5 Max | Budget option with lower fidelity — best for functional IVR or bot voices. | $12.50 / 1M chars | — | No |
| Kokoro Text to Speech | Ultra-low-cost and open weights, but limited in voice quality and realism. | $3.50 / 1M chars | — | Yes |
High-fidelity TTS with emotional depth and strong multilingual support.
Use cases
What it is good for
- 01Audiobook production with consistent voice and emotional depth.
- 02Multilingual voiceovers for video, e-learning, or advertising.
- 03Emotion-aware storytelling or interactive characters.
- 04High-fidelity content where audio quality and clarity are critical.
Prompting
Getting better results
Use emotion tags like 'happy' or 'sad' to match tone to context.
Adjust speed and pitch to match character age or mood.
Enable English normalization for correct pronunciation of numbers and abbreviations.
Version history
Predecessor model with limited voice styles.
Current — enhanced emotional depth and multilingual fluency.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
MiniMax Speech-02 HD is a high-definition text-to-speech model released in April 2025 by MiniMax. It produces studio-quality audio with emotional expression and support for 32 languages, optimized for audiobooks, voiceovers, and professional narration.
On Venice, MiniMax Speech-02 HD costs $125 per 1 million characters of synthesized speech. This is billed per character, with no subscription required.
No. MiniMax Speech-02 HD is a proprietary model — it is not free, open source, or open weights. You cannot self-host or fine-tune it.
It supports 32 languages, including Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indonesian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Turkish, Russian, Ukrainian, Thai, Polish, Romanian, Greek, Czech, Finnish, and Hindi.
Yes. You can set the emotional tone to happy, sad, neutral, angry, fearful, or surprised. It also includes auto-detect mode that matches emotion to text context.
MiniMax Speech-02 HD leads in multilingual quality, especially for Asian languages, and tops benchmark rankings. ElevenLabs Turbo v2.5 offers lower latency and a larger voice library, making it better for real-time English applications. Choose based on language needs and budget.
Yes. Venice runs MiniMax Speech-02 HD with anonymized privacy — your prompts are not stored, profiled, or used for training. You get full access without building a personal history.
Run MiniMax Speech-02 HD privately
No prompt logging. No data used for training.