Text to speech · اللهجة الخليجية
Pāṇini TTS reads Gulf Arabic as it is written in customer messages, in Arabic script, and the samples on this page are read by Tariq, an Arabic voice.
موعد معاينة الشقة في دبي مارينا ثابت باجر الساعة أربع العصر، والـ agent بيكون ينتظركم في الـ lobby. لو تبون تغيّرون الوقت قولوا لنا، ونطرش لكم الـ location الحين.
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 Gulf Arabic platform voice yet, so the playground uses Tariq, a voice recorded in another language: the Gulf Arabic text is read correctly, in that voice's accent. For a local accent, clone a native Gulf Arabic speaker from a 10-second recording and use that voice for every clip.
Sign up free, then send Gulf 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 Gulf Arabic (Khaleeji)
Khaleeji is the Arabic of the Gulf coast, from Kuwait to the Emirates. A Gulf caller greets with "شلونك؟" (how are you?) or "هلا والله" (warm hello), says "وايد" for "very, a lot", "أبي" or "أبغى" for "I want" and "الحين" for "now". Sounds shift too: ق is often a hard g (قهوة, gahwa), ك can become ch in words like "چذي" (like this), and in Kuwait and the Emirates ج is often y, as in "ريّال" (man). None of this is in Modern Standard Arabic, which uses كيف حالك, كثيرًا, أريد and الآن instead.
Gulf customer messages switch freely into English: "البوكنج" (the booking), "الأوفر", "الفيزا", "اللوكيشن", or whole English phrases inside an Arabic sentence. Pāṇini reads that mix in one voice. On a bank, telecom or property call, hearing Khaleeji tells a local customer the company is local; formal MSA, or another country's dialect, can sound like a call centre far away.
Use cases
Card activation, payment due reminders and fraud checks for customers in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE, in the dialect they speak.
Developers and brokers in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha follow up enquiries and confirm viewings in Khaleeji within minutes of a form being filled.
Recharge, bill and delivery calls that mix Arabic with English product names, read in one voice.
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 Gulf Arabic (Khaleeji), 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 Gulf Arabic (Khaleeji) script.
Your accent comes with it: a clone sounds like you speaking Gulf Arabic (Khaleeji), 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 Gulf 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": "موعد معاينة الشقة في دبي مارينا ثابت باجر الساعة أربع العصر، والـ agent بيكون ينتظركم في الـ lobby. لو تبون تغيّرون الوقت قولوا لنا، ونطرش لكم الـ location الحين.", "output_format": "mp3"}' \5 --output gulf-arabic.mp3FAQ
Yes. The playground on this page reads up to 220 characters of Gulf 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 Gulf Arabic, and you can clone a native speaker's voice from 10 seconds.
Yes. English words inside an Arabic sentence, such as booking or offer, are read in the same voice without a change of accent.
Send Arabic script for reliable results. Convert Latin-script chat text such as "shlonk" to Arabic script before sending it.
$0.03125 per 1,000 characters, the same as every language and dialect, with 10,000 free characters and one free voice clone, no card needed.
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 Gulf Arabic script and your clone reads it in your own voice, with Gulf Arabic pronunciation. Your natural accent carries over, so it sounds like you speaking Gulf Arabic.
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