MiniMax Audio

MiniMax Speech (Speech-02 series) text-to-speech with 300+ voices across 30+ languages

What MiniMax Audio does

  • MiniMax Speech (Speech-02 series) text-to-speech with 300+ voices across 30+ languages
  • Voice cloning from ~10 seconds of audio
  • Free plan with monthly credits after sign-up; also home of MiniMax Music

MiniMax Audio — straight answers

What is MiniMax Audio?

MiniMax Audio is listed under AI Voice & Speech, in the Content & Media Generation category on Flocci AI Tools. MiniMax Speech (Speech-02 series) text-to-speech with 300+ voices across 30+ languages. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at minimax.io.

Is MiniMax Audio free?

MiniMax Audio is freemium: there is a free tier you can work in and paid plans above it. It is one of 404 freemium tools in the catalog, all labelled the same way so you are never surprised by a paywall.

What can MiniMax Audio do?

MiniMax Audio does 3 things the catalog singles out: Minimax speech (speech-02 series) text-to-speech with 300+ voices across 30+ languages; voice cloning from ~10 seconds of audio; free plan with monthly credits after sign-up; also home of minimax music.

What is the best free alternative to MiniMax Audio?

Chatterbox (Resemble AI) is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same AI Voice & Speech sub-category and is free. Copilot Audio Expressions, CosyVoice and F5-TTS also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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ElevenLabs

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PlayHT (PlayAI)

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  • Voice cloning and voice agents
  • 800+ voices, many languages
  • Free trial words

Murf AI

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  • Sync voice with slides and media
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Cartesia

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  • Ultra-low-latency real-time voice (Sonic)
  • Ideal for voice agents and calls
  • Instant voice cloning
  • Free tier for developers

Hume AI

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  • Emotionally expressive voice interface (EVI)
  • Detects and responds to tone
  • Customizable empathic voices
  • Free developer credits

Fish Audio

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  • 15-second voice cloning claimed near-perfect fidelity
  • S2.1 Pro real-time emotionally-controllable voice model, free to start for devs
  • Bundles TTS, voice cloning, STT and a full voice-agent stack in one platform

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