diff --git a/src/commands/music/generate.ts b/src/commands/music/generate.ts
index 0dd023c..49f2ed1 100644
--- a/src/commands/music/generate.ts
+++ b/src/commands/music/generate.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import { musicEndpoint } from '../../client/endpoints';
 import { formatOutput, detectOutputFormat } from '../../output/formatter';
 import { saveAudioOutput } from '../../output/audio';
 import { readTextFromPathOrStdin } from '../../utils/fs';
+import { pipeAudioSseToStdout, NoResponseBodyError } from '../../utils/audio-stream';
 import type { Config } from '../../config/schema';
 import type { GlobalFlags } from '../../types/flags';
 import type { MusicRequest, MusicResponse } from '../../types/api';
@@ -149,14 +150,14 @@ export default defineCommand({
 
     if (flags.stream) {
       const res = await request(config, { url, method: 'POST', body, stream: true });
-      const reader = res.body?.getReader();
-      if (!reader) throw new CLIError('No response body', ExitCode.GENERAL);
-      while (true) {
-        const { done, value } = await reader.read();
-        if (done) break;
-        process.stdout.write(value);
+      try {
+        await pipeAudioSseToStdout(res);
+      } catch (err) {
+        if (err instanceof NoResponseBodyError) {
+          throw new CLIError('No response body', ExitCode.GENERAL);
+        }
+        throw err;
       }
-      reader.releaseLock();
       return;
     }
 
diff --git a/src/commands/speech/synthesize.ts b/src/commands/speech/synthesize.ts
index 5ad788e..0f46066 100644
--- a/src/commands/speech/synthesize.ts
+++ b/src/commands/speech/synthesize.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import { speechEndpoint } from '../../client/endpoints';
 import { detectOutputFormat, formatOutput } from '../../output/formatter';
 import { saveAudioOutput } from '../../output/audio';
 import { readTextFromPathOrStdin } from '../../utils/fs';
+import { pipeAudioSseToStdout, NoResponseBodyError } from '../../utils/audio-stream';
 import type { Config } from '../../config/schema';
 import type { GlobalFlags } from '../../types/flags';
 import type { SpeechRequest, SpeechResponse } from '../../types/api';
@@ -98,14 +99,14 @@ export default defineCommand({
 
     if (flags.stream) {
       const res = await request(config, { url, method: 'POST', body, stream: true });
-      const reader = res.body?.getReader();
-      if (!reader) throw new CLIError('No response body', ExitCode.GENERAL);
-      while (true) {
-        const { done, value } = await reader.read();
-        if (done) break;
-        process.stdout.write(value);
+      try {
+        await pipeAudioSseToStdout(res);
+      } catch (err) {
+        if (err instanceof NoResponseBodyError) {
+          throw new CLIError('No response body', ExitCode.GENERAL);
+        }
+        throw err;
       }
-      reader.releaseLock();
       return;
     }
 
diff --git a/src/utils/audio-stream.ts b/src/utils/audio-stream.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..72506e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/utils/audio-stream.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+/**
+ * Helpers for piping streamed TTS / music responses to stdout as raw audio.
+ *
+ * The MiniMax streaming endpoints return a Server-Sent Events stream of JSON
+ * envelopes whose `data.audio` field is a hex-encoded chunk of the target
+ * audio format. The `--stream` CLI flag is documented as writing *raw audio*
+ * to stdout (so it can be piped directly into players such as `mpv -`), so
+ * this helper consumes the SSE stream, decodes the hex payloads, and writes
+ * the decoded bytes to stdout.
+ *
+ * The stream contains N incremental chunk events followed by a terminal
+ * "summary" event that re-sends the full audio plus metadata (this is what
+ * `--out` saves). The summary must be skipped in streaming mode, otherwise
+ * the complete file gets appended after the incremental frames and the
+ * resulting MP3 contains duplicated audio with broken framing. The summary
+ * is identified by the presence of a top-level `extra_info` field — note
+ * that `trace_id` is on every event, so it cannot be used as the
+ * discriminator.
+ */
+
+import { parseSSE } from '../client/stream';
+
+/** Thrown when the upstream response has no body to stream from. */
+export class NoResponseBodyError extends Error {
+  constructor() {
+    super('No response body');
+    this.name = 'NoResponseBodyError';
+  }
+}
+
+interface SseEnvelope {
+  data?: { audio?: string; status?: number };
+  extra_info?: unknown;
+  trace_id?: string;
+}
+
+let stdoutEpipeHandlerInstalled = false;
+
+/**
+ * Install (idempotently) an EPIPE handler on stdout so that downstream
+ * consumers closing the pipe early (e.g. `... | head`, or a player that
+ * exits) cause a clean exit instead of an unhandled `'error'` event.
+ */
+export function installStdoutEpipeHandler(): void {
+  if (stdoutEpipeHandlerInstalled) return;
+  stdoutEpipeHandlerInstalled = true;
+  process.stdout.on('error', (err: NodeJS.ErrnoException) => {
+    if (err && err.code === 'EPIPE') {
+      process.exit(0);
+    }
+    throw err;
+  });
+}
+
+/**
+ * Consume a fetch-style SSE response and write the decoded raw audio bytes
+ * (from `data.audio` hex fields) to stdout, honoring backpressure.
+ *
+ * @throws {NoResponseBodyError} if `response.body` is missing.
+ */
+export async function pipeAudioSseToStdout(response: Response): Promise<void> {
+  if (!response.body) {
+    throw new NoResponseBodyError();
+  }
+
+  installStdoutEpipeHandler();
+
+  for await (const event of parseSSE(response)) {
+    const payload = event.data;
+    if (!payload || payload === '[DONE]') continue;
+
+    let parsed: SseEnvelope;
+    try {
+      parsed = JSON.parse(payload) as SseEnvelope;
+    } catch {
+      // Non-JSON keepalive — skip.
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    // Skip the terminal summary event (it re-sends the entire audio).
+    if (parsed.extra_info !== undefined) continue;
+
+    const hex = parsed.data?.audio;
+    if (typeof hex !== 'string' || hex.length === 0) continue;
+
+    const chunk = Buffer.from(hex, 'hex');
+    if (!process.stdout.write(chunk)) {
+      // Honor backpressure: pause until stdout drains.
+      await new Promise<void>((resolve) => process.stdout.once('drain', resolve));
+    }
+  }
+}