Text to speech · اللهجة العراقية
Pāṇini TTS reads Iraqi Arabic, the dialect of Baghdad and Basra, in Arabic script; the samples on this page are read by Tariq, an Arabic voice.
عندكم payment الـ card بمية وخمسين ألف دينار لازم يندفع قبل خمسطعش بالشهر حتى ما تنحسب عليكم غرامة. تكدرون تسددوه من الـ app، أو إذا تريدون ندزلكم link هسه بالـ 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 Iraqi (Mesopotamian) Arabic platform voice yet, so the playground uses Tariq, a voice recorded in another language: the Iraqi (Mesopotamian) Arabic text is read correctly, in that voice's accent. For a local accent, clone a native Iraqi (Mesopotamian) Arabic speaker from a 10-second recording and use that voice for every clip.
Sign up free, then send Iraqi (Mesopotamian) 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 Iraqi (Mesopotamian) Arabic
Iraqi Arabic sounds unlike any other dialect. In Baghdad and the south, ق is a hard g and ك often becomes ch, so writers sometimes use the Persian letters گ and چ, as in "گال" (he said) and "چان" (was). Iraqis ask "شلونك؟" (how are you?) and "شكو ماكو؟" (what's new?), using "أكو" and "ماكو" for "there is" and "there isn't". "هواية" means a lot and "هسّه" means now, where MSA says كثيرًا and الآن. Mosul and other northern cities speak a separate qeltu variety that keeps the q sound.
Centuries of contact left Persian and Turkish words in daily speech, and Iraqi customer messages now add English too: "الكارت", "الرصيد" next to "top-up", "الأونلاين". Pāṇini reads that mix in one voice. Iraqi listeners spot an outside accent instantly, and because Iraqi is less familiar to other Arabs than Egyptian or Levantine, a call in the caller's own dialect earns more trust than MSA.
Use cases
Balance, recharge and bundle-expiry calls for Iraq's mobile subscribers in Baghdad, Basra and the south.
As salaries and payments move to cards and apps, banks remind customers of card activation, instalments and due dates in Iraqi.
Appointment reminders for clinics and hospitals in Baghdad, Najaf and Basra.
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 Iraqi (Mesopotamian) 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 Iraqi (Mesopotamian) Arabic script.
Your accent comes with it: a clone sounds like you speaking Iraqi (Mesopotamian) 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 Iraqi (Mesopotamian) 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": "عندكم payment الـ card بمية وخمسين ألف دينار لازم يندفع قبل خمسطعش بالشهر حتى ما تنحسب عليكم غرامة. تكدرون تسددوه من الـ app، أو إذا تريدون ندزلكم link هسه بالـ SMS.", "output_format": "mp3"}' \5 --output iraqi-arabic.mp3FAQ
Yes. The playground on this page reads up to 220 characters of Iraqi (Mesopotamian) 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 Iraqi Arabic, and you can clone a native speaker's voice from 10 seconds.
You can; they show the Iraqi sound. Listen to a sample of your own text first and use plain ك and ق if you prefer.
This page covers Iraqi Arabic. Kurdish, spoken mainly in the Kurdistan Region, is a separate language.
$0.03125 per 1,000 characters, the same as every language and dialect. 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 Iraqi (Mesopotamian) Arabic script and your clone reads it in your own voice, with Iraqi (Mesopotamian) Arabic pronunciation. Your natural accent carries over, so it sounds like you speaking Iraqi (Mesopotamian) Arabic.
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