minimax-speech

minimax-speech is a skill for Claude Code from joeVenner/awesome-minimax-h3. It costs 215 tokens per session (4,385 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A cloud text-to-speech skill that turns written text into spoken audio through the MiniMax API. It also supports cloning a voice and designing a voice from a description.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create voiceovers, narration, audiobooks, or other spoken audio from text. It supports more than 300 preset voices across over 40 languages, along with inline pauses and timestamp output.
Why use it?
It removes the need to record narration manually for every script and provides controls for language, emotion, speed, pauses, and pronunciation style. It can also return timing information for words and sentences.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to create voiceovers, narration, audiobooks, or other spoken audio from text. It supports more than 300 preset voices across over 40 languages, along with inline pauses and timestamp output.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/joevenner/awesome-minimax-h3/minimax-speech
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add joeVenner/awesome-minimax-h3 --skill minimax-speech
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joeVenner/awesome-minimax-h3

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 215 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,385 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00215 $0.04385
Opus 5 $0.00108 $0.02193
Sonnet 5 $0.00043 $0.00877
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00439

Measured 12d ago against content hash c44ac1a5f38a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

minimax-speech scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

compatibility: Requires a MiniMax platform API key (https://platform.minimax.io), curl, jq, and ffmpeg for post-processing
minimax-speech/SKILL.md · 366 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 366 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MiniMax Speech — Cloud Text-to-Speech, Voice Cloning & Voice Design

This skill covers the CLOUD platform API only (api.minimax.io, Bearer auth with a platform API key). It does not cover the local Electron gateway — see minimax-local-audio for that, and do not mix their parameter shapes: this API uses real JSON types ("speed": 0.9), the local gateway uses strings ("speed": "1").


Quick start

curl -s -X POST "https://api.minimax.io/v1/t2a_v2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MINIMAX_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "speech-2.8-hd",
    "text": "The text to speak.",
    "output_format": "url",
    "language_boost": "English",
    "voice_setting": {"voice_id": "English_CaptivatingStoryteller", "speed": 0.9, "vol": 1, "pitch": 0, "emotion": "calm"},
    "audio_setting": {"sample_rate": 44100, "bitrate": 256000, "format": "wav", "channel": 1}
  }' | jq -r '.data.audio' | xargs curl -sL -o narration.wav

No GroupId parameter is needed. The call is synchronous — audio comes back in one response.


Phase 0: Choose the approach

Need Use
Any script under 10 000 characters Sync /v1/t2a_v2 — simplest, returns audio directly
Long-form (audiobook, > 10 000 chars, up to 1M) Async /v1/t2a_async_v2 — see async reference
Real-time / low latency playback "stream": true, or the WebSocket endpoint
A voice that matches a real person's sample Voice cloning — Phase 5
A specific timbre with no sample to work from Voice design — Phase 6, describe it in words

For voiceover against picture, always use the sync endpoint and render each line as its own call. See Phase 4 — this is the single most important technique in this skill.


Phase 1: Pick the model

Model Character
speech-2.8-hd Best quality. Supports interjection tags. Default choice for narration.
speech-2.8-turbo Faster, natural flow
speech-2.6-hd Ultra-low latency, enhanced naturalness
speech-2.6-turbo Faster, cheaper, good for agents
speech-02-hd / speech-02-turbo Superior rhythm and stability
speech-01-hd / speech-01-turbo Legacy

Read the full file on GitHub · 366 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 366 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c44ac1a5f38a

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minimax-speech is a skill published in the GitHub repository joeVenner/awesome-minimax-h3 (9 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 215 tokens to every session and 4,385 once invoked, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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