Built on cutting-edge neural architectures, MiniMax Speech 2.6 Turbo delivers professional-grade speech synthesis that sounds human-like and emotionally expressive. It supports over 40 languages and dialects, making it ideal for a global audience. The model excels in scenarios demanding fast response times without compromising audio clarity or voice nuance.
vs Google Cloud TTS: Both models provide high-quality voices, but MiniMax Speech 2.6 Turbo tends to generate more human-like emotional nuances and better prosody, while Google Cloud TTS focuses more on clarity and neutrality.
vs Amazon Polly: Amazon Polly requires more computational power for high-quality output, while MiniMax Speech 2.6 Turbo is optimized for lower-resource environments, such as mobile and edge devices.
vs Microsoft Azure TTS: MiniMax Speech 2.6 Turbo offers superior voice naturalness, especially for emotional tones, compared to Microsoft Azure TTS, which sometimes sounds more robotic or monotone.
Measured on the AI/ML API gateway across live traffic. Figures are medians unless stated. Last updated 2026-10-12.
Text-to-speech for fast, low-latency speech synthesis is documented for this model. It is also documented for real-time synchronous speech synthesis, including text-to-audio output for agent use.
Voice chat and conversational voice applications are specifically mentioned as a fit for this model. The documentation also describes it as ideal for chat agents and live voice bots.
Multilingual speech applications are documented, with support for 40 languages. The model is also described as suitable for multilingual IVR and in-product voice localization.
Audio content generation such as podcasts, audiobooks, e-learning, and narration is listed among its use cases.
import requests r = requests.post( "https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/tts", headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + AIMLAPI_KEY}, json={ "model": "minimax/speech-2.6-turbo", "text": "Hello from AI/ML API" }, ) print(r.json()["audio"]) # URL to the generated audio
const r = await fetch("https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/tts", { method: "POST", headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AIMLAPI_KEY}`, "Content-Type": "application/json", }, body: JSON.stringify({ "model": "minimax/speech-2.6-turbo", "text": "Hello from AI/ML API" }), }); const { audio } = await r.json(); console.log(audio); // URL to the generated audio
curl -X POST https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/tts \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"model":"minimax/speech-2.6-turbo","text":"Hello from AI/ML API"}' # the JSON response contains "audio" — a URL to the generated speech
OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and it works with your existing SDK.
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MiniMax Speech 2.6 Turbo takes text as input and returns audio.
MiniMax Speech 2.6 Turbo became available on January 5, 2026.
MiniMax Speech 2.6 Turbo is priced at $0.078 / 1M tokens.
MiniMax Speech 2.6 Turbo is billed per generation — a fixed charge per output rather than by prompt length.
MiniMax Speech 2.6 Turbo was built by MiniMax.
Send a request to https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/tts with minimax/speech-2.6-turbo as the model id.
Yes. MiniMax Speech 2.6 Turbo is served through AI/ML API, so the same key and endpoint format used for other models applies.
It supports text-to-speech generation across 40 languages.
