Text to speech · Deutsch
Pāṇini TTS speaks German for customers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with the same voice and price as every other language.
Ihre Sonex-Lieferung kommt morgen zwischen zehn und zwölf Uhr. Falls Sie dann nicht zu Hause sind, können Sie über den Link in unserer SMS ganz einfach einen neuen Termin auswählen.
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
Marlene, a native German platform voice, reads the playground above. Any Sonex Labs voice can also read German, keeping its own accent, and a voice cloned from a 10-second recording of a German speaker carries that speaker's accent.
Sign up free, then send German 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 German
Every German call script starts with a decision: Sie or du. Banks, insurers, doctors and public services say Sie; many apps, retailers and start-ups now say du, and switching halfway through sounds careless. German also packs meaning into compound words ("Terminbestätigung", "Kundennummer") whose stress falls on the first part, and into time expressions that confuse outsiders: "halb drei" means 2:30, not 3:30. The samples on this page use Sie and are read by Marlene, a native German platform voice.
German is not one accent. Austrians say "Jänner" for January and "Grüß Gott" for hello; Swiss Standard German writes ss instead of ß, and Swiss callers speak dialect among themselves. A voice that sounds right in Hamburg may sound foreign in Vienna or Zurich. Pāṇini reads Austrian and Swiss spellings as written, and you can clone a local speaker from 10 seconds so DACH customers hear a familiar voice.
Use cases
Doctors, dentists and physiotherapists in Germany and Austria confirm appointments and cut no-shows.
Insurers and utility providers answer routine calls about contracts, meter readings and payments in a polite Sie register.
Retailers and couriers confirm delivery slots, with one voice for German, Austrian and Swiss customers.
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 German, 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 German script.
Your accent comes with it: a clone sounds like you speaking German, 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 German 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": "Ihre Sonex-Lieferung kommt morgen zwischen zehn und zwölf Uhr. Falls Sie dann nicht zu Hause sind, können Sie über den Link in unserer SMS ganz einfach einen neuen Termin auswählen.", "output_format": "mp3"}' \5 --output german.mp3FAQ
Yes. The playground on this page reads up to 220 characters of German 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".
It reads whichever form you write. Pick one for the whole script; most banks, insurers and practices use Sie.
Yes, it reads Austrian and Swiss spellings and vocabulary as written. For a regional accent, clone a local speaker from a 10-second sample.
Yes. Marlene, who reads these samples, is a native German voice. Any Sonex Labs voice can also speak German, and a cloned voice carries across languages.
$0.03125 per 1,000 characters, the same as every language. 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 German script and your clone reads it in your own voice, with German pronunciation. Your natural accent carries over, so it sounds like you speaking German.
More languages
See text to speech in every language, the full list of 250+ languages, pricing, the Pāṇini TTS API, or transcribe German 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.