Which voices can I use?

17 voices, among them Wise woman, Friendly person, Inspirational girl, Deep voice man and Calm woman. You can hear each one in the studio before you run it.

How much text can it read in one run?

Up to 10,000 characters. You pay for the characters you send, with the price shown before you press go.

How is it different from MiniMax Music 2.6, MiniMax Music 3 and MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD?

MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo: MiniMax Speech 2.8 at a lower price, for volume. MiniMax Music 2.6: Full songs with vocals from a style prompt and your lyrics. MiniMax Music 3: Songs up to five minutes long from a style prompt and your lyrics. Without lyrics it makes an instrumental. A song can end before the length you ask for, which is what the run is billed. MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD: MiniMax's studio-quality speech, with emotion and over 30 languages. They all run in the same studio, so you can try one prompt on each.

How much does a run cost?

It costs $0.081 per 1,000 characters. You see the exact price before you press go, and a run that fails costs nothing.

Is MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo free to try?

No. There is no free credit: you add credit from $5, and your first top-up has no card fee. It costs $0.081 per 1,000 characters. You pay per run, in dollars, with no subscription.

Can I use what I make commercially?

Yes. You own what you make on Leap, so you can use it commercially, and we never train AI on it. The people and brands shown in a result can still have rights in it; the Terms say more.

Yes. Leap's REST API runs it as minimax/speech-2.8-turbo, at the same price per run as the studio, and agents can call it through Leap's MCP server. The request is at the bottom of this page.

Do I need a MiniMax account?

No. Leap sends your request to MiniMax's model and gives you what it makes. One Leap account runs MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo and every other model, in the studio, through the API and from your agents.

MiniMax Speech 2.8 TurboAI text to speech

MiniMax Speech 2.8 at a lower price, for volume. On Leap, it sits beside 174 other models in one studio.

Text to speech

No subscription
Every top model, one account
Pay per run, priced before it starts

Listen / A very specific coffee order

0 / 9 s

Read the transcript

One oat latte, extra hot, no foam, and if you could write 'you've got this' on the cup, that would honestly save my whole day.

AI text to speech

MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo at a glance

MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo is a text-to-speech model from MiniMax. It makes speech from your text.

Made by: MiniMax
Makes: Speech
Starts from: Your text
Voices: 17 to choose from
Text: Up to 10,000 characters
Price: $0.081 per 1,000 characters
Updated: October 3, 2026

01Write the words, pick a voice
02See the exact price, then press go
03Keep it in your library, or take it further

Pick the right one

MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo and its siblings

Model	Best for	Length	Price per run
MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo (this page)	MiniMax Speech 2.8 at a lower price, for volume.	–	$0.081 per 1,000 characters
MiniMax Music 2.6	Full songs with vocals from a style prompt and your lyrics.	–	$0.21
MiniMax Music 3	Songs up to five minutes long from a style prompt and your lyrics. Without lyrics it makes an instrumental. A song can end before the length you ask for, which is what the run is billed.	1 to 300 seconds	$0.0027 to $0.81
MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD	MiniMax's studio-quality speech, with emotion and over 30 languages.	–	$0.135 per 1,000 characters

Start with an idea

Three ways to try MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo

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Why creators make it on Leap

01
Every top model, side by side
175 models from Black Forest Labs, Google, ByteDance, Kuaishou, Alibaba and more, side by side in one studio.
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02
One click, or full control
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03
Your work stays yours
Everything you make stays in your library while your account is active, and you own what you make here.
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04
One balance for everything
The studio, the API and your agents spend the same balance, and every run shows its price before it starts.
How pricing works

Questions

MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo, answered

What is MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo?: MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo is a text-to-speech model from MiniMax. MiniMax Speech 2.8 at a lower price, for volume. On Leap it runs in one studio beside every other top model, with one account.
Which voices can I use?: 17 voices, among them Wise woman, Friendly person, Inspirational girl, Deep voice man and Calm woman. You can hear each one in the studio before you run it.
How much text can it read in one run?: Up to 10,000 characters. You pay for the characters you send, with the price shown before you press go.
How is it different from MiniMax Music 2.6, MiniMax Music 3 and MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD?: MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo: MiniMax Speech 2.8 at a lower price, for volume. MiniMax Music 2.6: Full songs with vocals from a style prompt and your lyrics. MiniMax Music 3: Songs up to five minutes long from a style prompt and your lyrics. Without lyrics it makes an instrumental. A song can end before the length you ask for, which is what the run is billed. MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD: MiniMax's studio-quality speech, with emotion and over 30 languages. They all run in the same studio, so you can try one prompt on each.
How much does a run cost?: It costs $0.081 per 1,000 characters. You see the exact price before you press go, and a run that fails costs nothing.
Is MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo free to try?: No. There is no free credit: you add credit from $5, and your first top-up has no card fee. It costs $0.081 per 1,000 characters. You pay per run, in dollars, with no subscription.
Can I use what I make commercially?: Yes. You own what you make on Leap, so you can use it commercially, and we never train AI on it. The people and brands shown in a result can still have rights in it; the Terms say more.
Is there an API?: Yes. Leap's REST API runs it as minimax/speech-2.8-turbo, at the same price per run as the studio, and agents can call it through Leap's MCP server. The request is at the bottom of this page.
Do I need a MiniMax account?: No. Leap sends your request to MiniMax's model and gives you what it makes. One Leap account runs MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo and every other model, in the studio, through the API and from your agents.

Your idea, MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo.

Every run shows its price before it starts, and one that fails costs nothing.

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For developers

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API docs

Model ID: minimax/speech-2.8-turbo
Makes: Voice and sound
Pricing: Per run, quoted first: POST /v1/quotes

Inputs

What the model takes. Leave out anything with a default.

Texttext

Text, up to 10,000 characters, required

Voicevoice

Wise woman, Friendly person, Inspirational girl, Deep voice man, Calm woman, Casual guy, Lively girl, Patient man, Young knight, Determined man, Lovely girl, Decent boy, Imposing manner, Elegant man, Abbess, Sweet girl 2, Exuberant girl. Default: Wise woman

Speedsettings.speed

0.5 to 2. Default: 1Speech speed (0.5-2.0)

Pitchsettings.pitch

-12 to 12. Default: 0Voice pitch (-12 to 12)

The request

The same envelope for every model; only the model and its input change. With prefer: wait=60 the answer holds the result when the run finishes within a minute; a longer one is read again by its ID. Agents can call it through the MCP server at app.tryleap.ai/api/mcp.

curl https://api.tryleap.ai/v1/generations \  -H "x-api-key: $LEAP_API_KEY" \  -H "content-type: application/json" \  -H "prefer: wait=60" \  -d '{    "model": "minimax/speech-2.8-turbo",    "input": {      "text": "One oat latte, extra hot, no foam, and if you could write '\''you'\''ve got this'\'' on the cup, that would honestly save my whole day."    }  }' # Video often outlasts the wait and answers "queued" or "running".# Put its "id" in GENERATION_ID and read it again until it is done:# curl https://api.tryleap.ai/v1/generations/$GENERATION_ID -H "x-api-key: $LEAP_API_KEY"