Text to speech · संताली
Pāṇini TTS reads Santali written in Devanagari, for calls and content aimed at Santal communities in Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha.
आमाक् Sonex order दो गापा सेताक् गेल घंटा खोन गेल बार घंटा भितर रे delivery हुयुः आ। ओना ओकते ओड़ाक् रे बाङ खान फोन मे, slot दो आयुप् ते बदलाव दाड़ेयाक् आ।
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 Santali platform voice yet, so the playground uses Riya, a voice recorded in another language: the Santali text is read correctly, in that voice's accent. For a local accent, clone a native Santali speaker from a 10-second recording and use that voice for every clip.
Sign up free, then send Santali 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 Santali
Santali has its own script, Ol Chiki, and it is the script most Santali writers and schools now use. Pāṇini does not read Ol Chiki. The samples on this page are written in Devanagari, one of several scripts Santali is also written in, alongside Bengali, Odia and Latin. If your text is in Ol Chiki, it has to be transliterated into Devanagari before it can be spoken.
Santali is a Munda language, unrelated to Hindi or Bengali, and it has sounds those languages lack, such as the checked consonants at the end of words like इञ for "I" and आमाक् for "your". Santali speakers greet each other with जोहार, and a call that opens that way sounds local at once. There is no dedicated Santali platform voice yet: Riya, a Hindi voice, reads these samples. For a native accent, clone a voice from 10 seconds of a Santali speaker.
Use cases
Scheme, health and ration reminders for villages in Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha.
Repayment and meeting reminders for women's groups and microfinance customers.
Santali narration for lessons, stories and announcements, from Devanagari text.
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 Santali, 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 Santali script.
Your accent comes with it: a clone sounds like you speaking Santali, 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 Santali 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": "आमाक् Sonex order दो गापा सेताक् गेल घंटा खोन गेल बार घंटा भितर रे delivery हुयुः आ। ओना ओकते ओड़ाक् रे बाङ खान फोन मे, slot दो आयुप् ते बदलाव दाड़ेयाक् आ।", "output_format": "mp3"}' \5 --output santali.mp3FAQ
Yes. The playground on this page reads up to 220 characters of Santali 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".
No. Ol Chiki is Santali's own script, but Pāṇini does not read it. Send Santali in Devanagari.
Riya, a Hindi voice, reads these samples. Any Sonex Labs voice can speak Santali, and you can clone a native Santali speaker's voice from 10 seconds.
Devanagari is what this page uses and what we recommend. Test a sample first if your text is in another script.
$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 Santali script and your clone reads it in your own voice, with Santali pronunciation. Your natural accent carries over, so it sounds like you speaking Santali.
More languages
See text to speech in every language, the full list of 250+ languages, pricing, the Pāṇini TTS API, or transcribe Santali 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.