speech-2.6-hd - AI Model Guide

MiniMax Speech 2.6 HD is a flagship studio-grade text-to-speech model offering broadcast-ready audio with nuanced prosody, natural breath control, and emotion intelligence. Unlike standard TTS models, it supports 40+ languages, 300+ voices, custom voice cloning, subtitle export, and granular audio controls like pitch adjustment up to ±12 semitones.

MiniMax Speech 2.6 HD supports over 40 languages including English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Spanish, French, German, and Hindi. This broad multilingual coverage makes it suitable for global content creators, marketers, and enterprises needing consistent high-quality voice output across diverse language markets.

Yes. MiniMax Speech 2.6 HD supports custom voice cloning by accepting a voice_id returned by MiniMax's Voice Cloning model. This allows creators and brands to generate audio in a personalized or branded voice, maintaining consistent vocal identity across all content produced through the platform.

Yes. When the subtitle_enable parameter is activated, MiniMax Speech 2.6 HD generates sentence-level timestamped subtitle metadata alongside the audio output. This feature is ideal for video captioning, quality assurance workflows, and accessibility compliance, making it a practical choice for professional content production pipelines.

MiniMax Speech 2.6 HD offers an auto mode where AI matches tone to context, plus explicit emotion settings: happy, sad, angry, fearful, disgusted, surprised, calm, fluent, and neutral. This emotion intelligence allows creators to precisely control vocal delivery for narration, marketing, e-learning, and entertainment applications.

MiniMax Speech 2.6 HD provides granular audio control including pitch adjustment of ±12 semitones and speed ranging from 0.5× to 2.0×. You can also control volume, bitrate, sample rate, channel layout, and output format. Inline pause markers using the <#0.5#> syntax allow precise timing control within scripts.

MiniMax Speech 2.6 HD is available via Replicate under the model slug minimax/speech-2.6-hd. It can be accessed through Replicate's API or through Craisee's unified creative platform, which provides a streamlined interface for configuring voices, emotions, subtitle export, and audio parameters without direct API management.

MiniMax Speech 2.6 HD includes over 300 system voices with named presets such as English_Wiselady and English_Deep-VoicedGentleman, spanning a wide range of accents, ages, and speaking styles. Users can also integrate custom cloned voices via voice_id for branded or personalized audio production at scale.