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Pāṇini TTS speaks Punjabi in Gurmukhi with a native Punjabi voice, Veer, for calls and content aimed at Punjab and Punjabis abroad.
ਤੁਹਾਡਾ Sonex ਵਾਲਾ ਸਮਾਨ ਕੱਲ੍ਹ ਸ਼ਾਮ ਚਾਰ ਤੋਂ ਛੇ ਵਜੇ ਦੇ ਵਿਚਕਾਰ ਪਹੁੰਚ ਜਾਵੇਗਾ। delivery ਵੇਲੇ ਛੇ ਸੌ ਪੰਜਾਹ ਰੁਪਏ cash ਦੇਣੇ ਨੇ, ਜਾਂ ਪਹਿਲਾਂ ਹੀ link ਤੋਂ payment ਕਰ ਦਿਓ।
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 Punjabi AI voice-over for YouTube and Reels. The audio is yours to use on monetised channels.
Last verified 24 October 2026
Veer, a native Punjabi platform voice, reads the playground above. Any Sonex Labs voice can also read Punjabi, keeping its own accent, and a voice cloned from a 10-second recording of a Punjabi speaker carries that speaker's accent.
Sign up free, then send Punjabi 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 Punjabi
Punjabi is a tonal language, though writing hides it. The Gurmukhi letters ਘ, ਝ, ਢ, ਧ and ਭ look like breathy consonants, but in most dialects they are spoken as plain consonants with a change of pitch on the vowel, and ਹ in the middle of a word does the same: ਘਰ (home) is not "ghar" with a breathy gh. A voice that reads Punjabi with Hindi sounds misses this in nearly every sentence. Veer, a native Punjabi platform voice, reads every sample on this page.
Gurmukhi also marks doubled consonants with the addhak (ੱ), as in ਪੱਕਾ, and nasal vowels with bindi and tippi, so a single dot can change the word. Across the border in Pakistan, Punjabi is written in Shahmukhi, a Perso-Arabic script; this page covers Gurmukhi. Customer calls lean on ਜੀ for respect and mix in English words such as parcel, booking and visa, which Pāṇini reads in the same voice.
Use cases
Visa, study-abroad and travel agencies across Punjab keep applicants and their families updated in Punjabi.
Lenders and agri-input firms reach farmers with instalment and crop-season reminders.
Narration and voice-over for Punjabi audiences in Canada, the UK and Australia.
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 Punjabi, 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 Punjabi script.
Your accent comes with it: a clone sounds like you speaking Punjabi, 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 Punjabi 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": "ਤੁਹਾਡਾ Sonex ਵਾਲਾ ਸਮਾਨ ਕੱਲ੍ਹ ਸ਼ਾਮ ਚਾਰ ਤੋਂ ਛੇ ਵਜੇ ਦੇ ਵਿਚਕਾਰ ਪਹੁੰਚ ਜਾਵੇਗਾ। delivery ਵੇਲੇ ਛੇ ਸੌ ਪੰਜਾਹ ਰੁਪਏ cash ਦੇਣੇ ਨੇ, ਜਾਂ ਪਹਿਲਾਂ ਹੀ link ਤੋਂ payment ਕਰ ਦਿਓ।", "output_format": "mp3"}' \5 --output punjabi.mp3FAQ
Yes. The playground on this page reads up to 220 characters of Punjabi 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. Veer is a native Punjabi voice. Any Sonex Labs voice can also speak Punjabi, and you can clone your own from a 10-second sample.
Yes. English words such as parcel, booking or visa are read inside Punjabi sentences in the same voice.
Yes. Pāṇini is trained on 8 kHz phone audio, so calls stay clear on ordinary and international phone lines.
$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 Punjabi script and your clone reads it in your own voice, with Punjabi pronunciation. Your natural accent carries over, so it sounds like you speaking Punjabi.
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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.