Text to speech · बड़ो
Pāṇini TTS reads Bodo written in Devanagari, the script Bodo schools and publishers use, for calls and content aimed at Bodoland and the rest of Assam.
नोंथांनि Sonex order आ गाबोन फुं दस बाजिआव delivery जागोन। बेसमाव नोंथां न'आव थाया नाथाय फोन खालाम, आं slot आ बेलासिनाव सोलायना होगोन। गाबोन फुं SMS बो हरगोन।
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 Bodo platform voice yet, so the playground uses Priya, a voice recorded in another language: the Bodo text is read correctly, in that voice's accent. For a local accent, clone a native Bodo speaker from a 10-second recording and use that voice for every clip.
Sign up free, then send Bodo 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 Bodo
Bodo is a Tibeto-Burman language, not a relative of Hindi or Assamese, and it has been written in Latin, Bengali-Assamese and Devanagari over the last century. Devanagari is the script the Bodo Sahitya Sabha settled on and the one used in schools and the press today, so that is how the samples on this page are written. Words like खुलुमबाय, the everyday Bodo greeting, and नोंथां, the respectful "you", look familiar on the page to a Hindi reader but sound nothing like Hindi.
Bodo also uses pitch to tell some words apart, and Devanagari does not mark it. On a phone call, where the listener cannot reread the message, a wrong pitch can make a word harder to catch. There is no dedicated Bodo platform voice yet: the samples are read by Priya, a Hindi voice. For the most natural Bodo, clone a voice from 10 seconds of a native Bodo speaker; the clone keeps that speaker's accent.
Use cases
Scheme, health-camp and certificate reminders for districts where Bodo is the language people speak at home.
Loan, repayment and self-help-group reminders for customers more at ease in Bodo than in Assamese or Hindi.
Bodo narration for textbooks and lessons, read the way students hear the language spoken.
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 Bodo, 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 Bodo script.
Your accent comes with it: a clone sounds like you speaking Bodo, 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 Bodo 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": "नोंथांनि Sonex order आ गाबोन फुं दस बाजिआव delivery जागोन। बेसमाव नोंथां न'आव थाया नाथाय फोन खालाम, आं slot आ बेलासिनाव सोलायना होगोन। गाबोन फुं SMS बो हरगोन।", "output_format": "mp3"}' \5 --output bodo.mp3FAQ
Yes. The playground on this page reads up to 220 characters of Bodo 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".
Priya, a Hindi voice, reads these samples. Any Sonex Labs voice can speak Bodo, and you can clone a native Bodo speaker's voice from 10 seconds.
Devanagari, the script used for Bodo in schools and print. Latin-script Bodo is not recommended.
Yes. English words inside Bodo sentences are read in the same voice.
$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 Bodo script and your clone reads it in your own voice, with Bodo pronunciation. Your natural accent carries over, so it sounds like you speaking Bodo.
More languages
See text to speech in every language, the full list of 250+ languages, pricing, the Pāṇini TTS API, or transcribe Bodo 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.