Text to speech · العامية المصرية
Pāṇini TTS reads Egyptian Arabic, the Cairo Arabic most Arabic speakers recognise, in Arabic script; the samples on this page are read by Tariq, an Arabic voice.
باقة حضرتك هتتجدد يوم عشرين الشهر ده بمية وخمسين جنيه. ولو فيه plan تانية تناسب حضرتك، تغييرها سهل من الـ app قبلها، أو نبعت لحضرتك link على الواتساب دلوقتي.
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 Egyptian Arabic platform voice yet, so the playground uses Tariq, a voice recorded in another language: the Egyptian Arabic text is read correctly, in that voice's accent. For a local accent, clone a native Egyptian Arabic speaker from a 10-second recording and use that voice for every clip.
Sign up free, then send Egyptian 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 Egyptian Arabic
Egyptian Arabic is the most widely understood dialect in the Arab world, thanks to decades of Egyptian films, series and songs. In Cairo, ج is a hard g ("جميل" is gameel) and ق is usually a glottal stop ("قلب" sounds like 'alb). Everyday words differ from MSA at once: "إزيك؟" (how are you?), "عايز" (I want, MSA أريد), "دلوقتي" (now, MSA الآن), "معلش" (never mind, sorry) and the polite "يا فندم" (sir, madam) heard on every service line.
Egyptian customer messages are full of English: "الأوردر" (order), "الكاش", "الفيزا", "الشحن" mixed with "delivery". Franco-Arabic, Arabic typed in Latin letters with digits such as 3 for ع, is especially common in Egypt, in chat and in customer messages. An Egyptian caller hears a Gulf or MSA voice as foreign or stiff; "حضرتك" and "يا فندم" in a Cairo accent sound like a real agent. The platform's Arabic voices are Modern Standard Arabic voices, so for a Cairo accent clone an Egyptian speaker from a 10-second sample.
Use cases
Online stores and couriers confirm orders, delivery windows and cash-on-delivery amounts before dispatch, to reduce failed deliveries across Cairo, Giza and Alexandria.
Recharge, bill, wallet and instalment reminders for Egypt's large mobile-first customer base.
Gulf banks, remittance and service companies speak to Egyptian customers in their own dialect.
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 Egyptian 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 Egyptian Arabic script.
Your accent comes with it: a clone sounds like you speaking Egyptian 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 Egyptian 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": "باقة حضرتك هتتجدد يوم عشرين الشهر ده بمية وخمسين جنيه. ولو فيه plan تانية تناسب حضرتك، تغييرها سهل من الـ app قبلها، أو نبعت لحضرتك link على الواتساب دلوقتي.", "output_format": "mp3"}' \5 --output egyptian-arabic.mp3FAQ
Yes. The playground on this page reads up to 220 characters of Egyptian 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".
Tariq, an Arabic voice, reads these samples; any voice can speak Egyptian Arabic, and you can clone a native speaker's voice from 10 seconds.
Send Arabic script for reliable results; convert Latin-script text such as "ezayak" to Arabic script before sending it.
Yes. Words like order, cash or visa 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, with 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 Egyptian Arabic script and your clone reads it in your own voice, with Egyptian Arabic pronunciation. Your natural accent carries over, so it sounds like you speaking Egyptian Arabic.
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