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@simonw (2026-08-04) reports generated audio sounded like "weird speech-like…

Brief

Developer @simonw posted on 2026-08-04 that output audio from a model became "weird speech-like junk" because he failed to follow the repository's prompting guide and did not specify the desired audio. He shared a direct link to the MiniMaxAI/Minimax-H3 Hugging Face repo and the docs/VIDEOPROMPTWRITINGGUIDEbase_en.md file as the corrective resource for prompt formatting.

Why it matters

@simonw (2026-08-04) reports generated audio sounded like "weird speech-like junk" and says the issue was his fault for not following the prompting guide or specifying the desired audio.

Key details

  • He links to the MiniMaxAI/Minimax-H3 Hugging Face repo and the specific docs/VIDEO_PROMPT_WRITING_GUIDE_base_en.md guide (huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/Min… ) to show how to write proper video/audio prompts.
Source evidence

The audio is weird speech-like junk, but that's my fault for not following the prompting guide and telling it what audio I wanted - here's that guide: huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/Min…

Link

docs/VIDEOPROMPTWRITINGGUIDEbase_en.md · MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3 at main

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