Text to speech · Bahasa Melayu
Pāṇini TTS reads Malay as it is spoken in Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore, including the English words that Malaysians drop into nearly every customer conversation.
Bungkusan anda dari Sonex akan dihantar esok antara pukul dua hingga empat petang. Bayaran COD sebanyak lima puluh ringgit, dan kalau nak tukar slot, tekan link dalam SMS yang kami hantar.
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 Malay platform voice yet, so the playground uses Liz, a voice recorded in another language: the Malay text is read correctly, in that voice's accent. For a local accent, clone a native Malay speaker from a 10-second recording and use that voice for every clip.
Sign up free, then send Malay 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 Malay
Malay and Indonesian share a root but have drifted apart in everyday words, which is why a page for one should not quietly serve the other. Malaysians say kereta for car, where Indonesians say mobil; percuma means free, while in Indonesian it means pointless. Malay is normally written in Rumi, the Latin alphabet, but Jawi, an Arabic-based script, still appears on signs, in religious texts and in some states' official use. For speech, Rumi is the form to send.
Customer conversations in Malaysia are rarely pure Malay. A delivery update might say "parcel anda akan sampai esok, boleh check status dalam app", mixing Malay and English mid-sentence in the way Malaysians actually talk, with particles like lah and ya softening the tone. Banks, telcos and government services also need a formal register with anda and encik/puan. Pāṇini reads both, so the same voice can confirm a bank appointment and chase a late parcel.
Use cases
Banks and insurers send payment reminders and appointment confirmations in formal Malay with encik and puan.
Voice agents answer in the Malay-English mix customers use, for top-ups, parcel tracking and returns.
Agencies in Malaysia and Brunei publish announcements and IVR menus in standard Malay.
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 Malay, 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 Malay script.
Your accent comes with it: a clone sounds like you speaking Malay, 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 Malay 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": "Bungkusan anda dari Sonex akan dihantar esok antara pukul dua hingga empat petang. Bayaran COD sebanyak lima puluh ringgit, dan kalau nak tukar slot, tekan link dalam SMS yang kami hantar.", "output_format": "mp3"}' \5 --output malay.mp3FAQ
Yes. The playground on this page reads up to 220 characters of Malay 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".
Closely related but not the same: vocabulary, spelling of some loanwords and politeness forms differ. Write Malaysian Malay text and Pāṇini reads it as Malay.
Send Rumi (Latin) text for the most reliable result; that is how almost all customer messages are written today.
Liz reads these samples; any Sonex Labs voice can speak Malay, 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 Malay script and your clone reads it in your own voice, with Malay pronunciation. Your natural accent carries over, so it sounds like you speaking Malay.
More languages
See text to speech in every language, the full list of 250+ languages, pricing, the Pāṇini TTS API, or transcribe Malay 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.