Text to speech · Harshen Hausa
Pāṇini TTS reads Hausa in boko, the Latin spelling used in everyday messages, with the hooked letters that set Hausa sounds apart.
Daga Sonex delivery muke kira. Kayan da kuka saya za su iso gobe tsakanin ƙarfe goma na safe zuwa ƙarfe sha biyu na rana; idan lokacin bai dace ba, ku danna link ɗin da muka turo ta SMS.
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 Hausa platform voice yet, so the playground uses Mark, a voice recorded in another language: the Hausa text is read correctly, in that voice's accent. For a local accent, clone a native Hausa speaker from a 10-second recording and use that voice for every clip.
Sign up free, then send Hausa 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 Hausa
Hausa is written today in boko, a Latin alphabet with hooked letters, ɓ, ɗ and ƙ, plus 'y, for sounds English does not have: the ɗ in kuɗi (money), the ƙ in ƙarfe, the word used for telling the time. An older Arabic-based script, ajami, is still used in Koranic schools and some community writing. Hausa has tones and long and short vowels, but ordinary text marks neither, so a voice has to know the words to say them right.
Hausa is the main language of northern Nigeria and southern Niger and a trade language well beyond its native speakers. Islamic scholarship gave it many Arabic words, lafiya (health, well-being), lokaci (time), littafi (book), and contact with English added asibiti (hospital) and banki. Greetings carry weight: a call that opens with Sannu or Ina kwana? (good morning) sounds respectful before the message starts. For banks, health programmes and agricultural services in the north, Hausa is often the language customers are most comfortable hearing, and on a basic phone a voice call reaches people that a written message may not.
Use cases
Vaccination, antenatal and appointment reminders for families across northern Nigeria and Niger.
Planting, weather and fertiliser-collection calls for farmers in the Hausa-speaking belt.
Account alerts and repayment reminders for customers who bank by phone in Kano, Kaduna and beyond.
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 Hausa, 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 Hausa script.
Your accent comes with it: a clone sounds like you speaking Hausa, 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 Hausa 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": "Daga Sonex delivery muke kira. Kayan da kuka saya za su iso gobe tsakanin ƙarfe goma na safe zuwa ƙarfe sha biyu na rana; idan lokacin bai dace ba, ku danna link ɗin da muka turo ta SMS.", "output_format": "mp3"}' \5 --output hausa.mp3FAQ
Yes. The playground on this page reads up to 220 characters of Hausa 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".
Yes. Write them as you normally would in boko and they are read as distinct Hausa sounds.
Yes. English words such as account or network inside a Hausa sentence are read in the same voice.
Mark reads these samples; any Sonex Labs voice can speak Hausa, and you can clone a native speaker's voice from 10 seconds.
$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 Hausa script and your clone reads it in your own voice, with Hausa pronunciation. Your natural accent carries over, so it sounds like you speaking Hausa.
More languages
See text to speech in every language, the full list of 250+ languages, pricing, the Pāṇini TTS API, or transcribe Hausa 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.