Text to speech · العربية التشادية
Pāṇini TTS reads Chadian Arabic in Arabic script; the samples on this page are read by Nour, an Arabic voice.
الـ rendez-vous حقّكم في العيادة يوم التلاتا الساعة تسعة الصباح، وبنرسّل ليكم SMS قبل بيوم. جيبوا معاكم عشرة آلاف فرنك للـ consultation، ولو دايرين تغيّروا الوقت كلّمونا.
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 Chadian Arabic platform voice yet, so the playground uses Nour, a voice recorded in another language: the Chadian Arabic text is read correctly, in that voice's accent. For a local accent, clone a native Chadian Arabic speaker from a 10-second recording and use that voice for every clip.
Sign up free, then send Chadian Arabic 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 Chadian Arabic
Chadian Arabic is the main lingua franca of Chad: in N'Djamena's markets people who speak Sara, Kanembu or other languages at home switch to it to buy, sell and talk business. It belongs to the Arabic of the Sudanic belt, close to the Arabic of Darfur, and differs from MSA in sound and grammar; many of the throat sounds of MSA are weakened or merged. Greetings lean on "عافية" (well, fine), "شنو" means what, and "سمح" means good or nice.
Chad's official languages are French and Modern Standard Arabic, so customer messages mix Chadian Arabic with French words such as "الكارت" and "مرسي". Pāṇini reads Arabic mixed with French in one voice. Many Chadians, especially outside the educated elite, follow spoken Chadian Arabic far better than MSA, which is why a reminder in the everyday language is more likely to be understood the first time it is heard.
Use cases
Recharge, transfer and balance calls for mobile subscribers in N'Djamena and across Chad.
Spoken reminders for vaccination days, clinics and community programmes in the language most people understand.
Information lines for organisations working in eastern Chad, where many refugees from Sudan speak closely related Arabic.
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 Chadian Arabic, 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 Chadian Arabic script.
Your accent comes with it: a clone sounds like you speaking Chadian Arabic, 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 Chadian Arabic 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": "الـ rendez-vous حقّكم في العيادة يوم التلاتا الساعة تسعة الصباح، وبنرسّل ليكم SMS قبل بيوم. جيبوا معاكم عشرة آلاف فرنك للـ consultation، ولو دايرين تغيّروا الوقت كلّمونا.", "output_format": "mp3"}' \5 --output chadian-arabic.mp3FAQ
Yes. The playground on this page reads up to 220 characters of Chadian Arabic 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".
Nour, an Arabic voice, reads these samples; any voice can speak Chadian Arabic, and you can clone a native speaker's voice from 10 seconds.
Send Arabic script. Latin-script Chadian Arabic has not been verified with Pāṇini.
Yes. French words inside an Arabic sentence are read in the same voice.
$0.03125 per 1,000 characters, the same as every language and dialect. The first 10,000 characters and one voice clone are free, no card.
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 Chadian Arabic script and your clone reads it in your own voice, with Chadian Arabic pronunciation. Your natural accent carries over, so it sounds like you speaking Chadian Arabic.
More languages
See text to speech in every language, the full list of 250+ languages, pricing, the Pāṇini TTS API, or transcribe Chadian Arabic 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.