Listener Elo 1,155 ±10 on Artificial Analysis (read October 22, 2026); latency not measured.
Benchmark summary: No speed tier: Coval, the source of the tiers, does not measure this model.
MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo is a proprietary text-to-speech (TTS) API from MiniMax, measured by two independent benchmarks: Artificial Analysis and Speko.
Speed tier
Not measured by Coval
No speed tier: Coval, the source of the tiers, does not measure this model.
Data read October 22, 2026. No combined score: methodology
Gradium TTS vs MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo Fastest TTS APIs, by speed tierNeither Coval nor Speko measures MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo's latency, so it has no speed tier and does not appear in the speed tiers.
Speko rates its naturalness at 1,385 Elo from blind A/B votes on phone-agent lines (40th highest of the 43 models Speko rates). In the Artificial Analysis Speech Arena it holds 1,155 ±10 Elo (95% interval), 26th highest of the 98 models Artificial Analysis rates; scores whose intervals overlap are a tie. In its Customer Service category, Artificial Analysis places it 28th, at 1,173 Elo.
Speko has not scored its pronunciation of numbers and dates.
Artificial Analysis lists $60. Speko lists about $60. List prices, as each source prints them.
Tested in Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi and Vietnamese by Artificial Analysis or Speko. A language missing here was not tested, which does not mean it is unsupported.
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