Text to speech · አማርኛ
Amharic text to speech (Amharic TTS) reads text written in the Ge'ez script, or fidel, aloud, with no need to transliterate it into Latin letters. Play it free below with no login, and write times in the Ethiopian or the international clock, whichever your listeners use. There is no native Amharic platform voice yet; the playground uses Mark, and you can clone a native speaker from 10 seconds.
ከSonex ባንክ ነው የምደውለው። የዚህ ወር የloan ክፍያዎ ሁለት ሺህ አምስት መቶ ብር እስከ ጥቅምት ሃያ ድረስ መከፈል አለበት፤ በapp ወይም በምንልክልዎ link መክፈል ይችላሉ፣ ማረጋገጫው ደግሞ ወዲያውኑ በSMS ይደርስዎታል።
Voices
Free to play in your browser without an account, up to 220 characters at a time. To save the audio as a file, sign up free for 10,000 characters and one voice clone, no card required: the dashboard saves WAV and the API returns MP3.
Making a video? See AI voice-over for YouTube and Reels. The audio is yours to use on monetised channels.
Last verified 24 October 2026
There is no native Amharic platform voice yet, so the playground uses Mark, a voice recorded in another language: the Amharic text is read correctly, in that voice's accent. For a local accent, clone a native Amharic speaker from a 10-second recording and use that voice for every clip.
Sign up free, then send Amharic text to the API with "output_format": "mp3" and save the file, or generate clips in the dashboard and download them. Scripts longer than the playground's 220 characters work the same way.
About Amharic
Amharic is written in the Ge'ez script, or fidel, an abugida in which each character is a consonant plus a vowel: ሰ, ሱ, ሲ, ሳ and so on through seven forms for each of more than thirty consonants. The script does not show doubled consonants, though doubling can change the meaning, so a reader has to know the word. Amharic has its own punctuation too: ። ends a sentence and ፣ works as a comma.
Ethiopia keeps its own calendar and its own clock. The day's hours are counted from about 6 a.m., so ጠዋት ሦስት ሰዓት (three o'clock in the morning) is 9 a.m. international time, and the calendar has thirteen months and runs seven to eight years behind the Gregorian one. Amharic customer messages borrow English, ኔትወርክ (network) and ኢንተርኔት, and older Italian words such as መኪና (car). Greetings start with ሰላም (peace, hello) and end with አመሰግናለሁ (thank you). As mobile money and app banking spread, a payment or appointment call that gets the Ethiopian clock right avoids a missed visit.
Use cases
Payment confirmations, balance alerts and loan reminders for customers in Addis Ababa and the regions.
Appointment reminders that state the time in the Ethiopian clock, so patients arrive when they are expected.
Remittance, travel and community calls for Amharic speakers in North America, Europe and the Gulf.
Commercial use
The full wording is in our terms of service.
YouTube
Yes, AI voices are allowed. What YouTube limits is mass-produced, repetitive content: videos made from a template with little original work. Its July 2025 update renamed that rule from “repetitious” to “inauthentic” content (YouTube’s monetisation policies).
Write your own script, add your own research or editing, and keep one consistent voice for the channel. Where a realistic AI voice could mislead viewers, use YouTube’s altered or synthetic content label. The monetisation decision is always YouTube’s.
Voice cloning
Clone your voice from a 10-second recording. Your clone speaks Amharic, and every other language Pāṇini supports, in your own voice. The language comes from the text you type, so a clone recorded in English or Hindi can read a Amharic script.
Your accent comes with it: a clone sounds like you speaking Amharic, not like a different native speaker. Every free account includes one voice clone. Clone only your own voice, or a voice whose owner has agreed.
API
One request returns Amharic audio as MP3. The language is detected from the text, so no language setting is needed. Pāṇini TTS starts streaming audio in under 200 ms (time to first byte).
1curl https://api.sonexlabs.com/v1/speech \2 --header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \3 --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \4 --data '{"text": "ከSonex ባንክ ነው የምደውለው። የዚህ ወር የloan ክፍያዎ ሁለት ሺህ አምስት መቶ ብር እስከ ጥቅምት ሃያ ድረስ መከፈል አለበት፤ በapp ወይም በምንልክልዎ link መክፈል ይችላሉ፣ ማረጋገጫው ደግሞ ወዲያውኑ በSMS ይደርስዎታል።", "output_format": "mp3"}' \5 --output amharic.mp3FAQ
Yes. The playground on this page reads up to 220 characters of Amharic at a time with no account. Sign up free for 10,000 characters and one voice clone, no card; after that it costs $0.03125 per 1,000 characters.
Yes, after free sign-up. The playground on this page plays audio in your browser only, up to 220 characters at a time, so you can check the voice first. Sign up free (10,000 characters and one voice clone, no card): the dashboard saves each clip as a WAV file with Download audio, and the API returns MP3 when you set "output_format": "mp3".
Yes. Send Amharic in fidel; there is no need to transliterate it into Latin letters.
No. It reads the time you write. Write the hour in the clock your listeners use, Ethiopian or international.
Mark reads these samples; any Sonex Labs voice can speak Amharic, and you can clone a native speaker's voice from 10 seconds.
$0.03125 per 1,000 characters, the same as every language.
Yes. Audio you generate, on the free tier or with paid credits, can be used on monetised YouTube channels, Shorts, Reels and in ads, with no attribution. YouTube limits mass-produced, repetitive videos, not AI voices, so write your own script and keep your edits original. The monetisation decision is YouTube's.
The audio you generate is yours to use, including commercially, with no attribution and no royalties to Sonex Labs. You are responsible for the script itself: if you read someone else's text, you need their permission.
Yes. A Sonex voice clone is not tied to the language it was recorded in. Type a Amharic script and your clone reads it in your own voice, with Amharic pronunciation. Your natural accent carries over, so it sounds like you speaking Amharic.
More languages
See text to speech in every language, the full list of 250+ languages, pricing, the Pāṇini TTS API, or transcribe Amharic audio with Valmiki speech to text.
10,000 free text-to-speech characters and one free voice clone that speaks every language, no card required. Every language is billed at the same rate.