MiniMax Speech — AI text to speech with Bulgarian support

What MiniMax Speech is

MiniMax Speech is the voice model from MiniMax — the company also known for the Hailuo video model. It turns written text into natural-sounding speech and is one of the few in the world with explicit support for Bulgarian — not “it works in Bulgarian too”, but Bulgarian officially on the model's list of languages. That is why it is also the second model in the Audio category at genkiki.com: for ads, explainer videos, lessons and stories, with no narrator and no studio.

In genkiki.com the available variant is MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD — the newest generation of the model.

Versions and capabilities in generiram

• Text is limited to 10,000 characters per generation — twice as much as most voice models.
• You are charged per 1000 characters started — 1 to 1000 characters cost the same as 1000.
• 17 voices — female, male and character voices (narrator, young voice, deep tone), each clearly labelled in the menu.
• Emotion of the speech: happy, sad, angry, surprised and more — or let the model judge from the text.
• Speed and pitch are set separately — from a slow, deep narrator to a fast, energetic ad voice.
• Cues in square brackets that are not read out but acted out — write them in your own language and the system translates them for the model: [laughs], [sighs], [clears throat], [coughs], [gasps], [sniffs], [groans], [yawns], while [pause] and [long pause] insert silence. For example: “I can't believe it! [laughs] It really happened.”
• The emotion of the whole reading is set separately, from the “Emotion” menu — happy, sad, angry, scared, disgusted, surprised or neutral. The brackets are for one specific moment in the text; the emotion colours the reading throughout.
• The text is read word for word — nothing is translated or shortened.

What it is good for

MiniMax Speech is the pick when the speech has to be in Bulgarian and sound like a real speaker:

• Voice-over for ads and product videos in Bulgarian.
• Narration for explainer clips, lessons and presentations.
• Stories, tales and audio content with different emotions.
• Long texts (up to 10,000 characters) — whole articles and scripts in one pass.

How to get started

Open the AI Studio, choose the Text → Speech mode in the Audio category and the MiniMax Speech 2.8 model. Write your text, pick a voice and an emotion and press Generate — seconds later the audio is ready to download.