Text to speech · འབྲས་ལྗོངས་སྐད་
Pāṇini TTS reads Sikkimese (Bhutia, or Drenjongke) written in Tibetan script, for messages and content aimed at Sikkim.
Sonex ལས་ ཁ་ལབ་ཀ་ཨིན། ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་ hotel booking ཚེས་ 15 ལུ་ ཐག་བཅད་སོང་། ཁང་མིག་ཨང་ 204 ཨིན། ཞིབ་ཕྲ་ཚང་མ་ SMS ནང་ བཏང་ཡོད། ཉིན་མོ་ 12 ཆུ་ཚོད་ཀྱི་ཤུལ་ལས་ check-in འབད་ཆོག
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 Sikkimese platform voice yet, so the playground uses Anchal, a voice recorded in another language: the Sikkimese text is read correctly, in that voice's accent. For a local accent, clone a native Sikkimese speaker from a 10-second recording and use that voice for every clip.
Sign up free, then send Sikkimese 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 Sikkimese
Sikkimese calls itself Drenjongke, "the language of the rice valley", after Drenjong, the old name for Sikkim. It is the language of Sikkim's Bhutia community and one of the state's official languages, written in Tibetan script and close to, but not the same as, the Tibetan spoken in Lhasa. Words a Sikkimese listener hears every day include ཁམས་བཟང་ ("khamzang", a greeting asking after your health), ཀ་དྲིན་ཆེ་ ("kadrinche", "thank you"), ཨིན་ ("is") and ཆུ་ ("water").
There is no dedicated Sikkimese platform voice yet. The samples on this page are read by Anchal, a Hindi voice, from Sikkimese text. Many Bhutia families now use Nepali, Hindi or English outside the home, which is exactly why a message in Sikkimese stands out to older listeners and in monasteries. For the most local sound, clone a voice from a 10-second recording of a Sikkimese speaker; the clone then reads Sikkimese in that speaker's own accent.
Use cases
Scheme, health and civic announcements for Bhutia villages and older listeners.
Narration for festival, heritage and monastery audio in the community's own language.
Read-aloud audio for Sikkimese lessons and learning material.
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 Sikkimese, 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 Sikkimese script.
Your accent comes with it: a clone sounds like you speaking Sikkimese, 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 Sikkimese 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": "Sonex ལས་ ཁ་ལབ་ཀ་ཨིན། ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་ hotel booking ཚེས་ 15 ལུ་ ཐག་བཅད་སོང་། ཁང་མིག་ཨང་ 204 ཨིན། ཞིབ་ཕྲ་ཚང་མ་ SMS ནང་ བཏང་ཡོད། ཉིན་མོ་ 12 ཆུ་ཚོད་ཀྱི་ཤུལ་ལས་ check-in འབད་ཆོག", "output_format": "mp3"}' \5 --output sikkimese.mp3FAQ
Yes. The playground on this page reads up to 220 characters of Sikkimese 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".
Anchal, a Hindi voice, reads these samples; any voice can speak Sikkimese, and you can clone a native speaker's voice from 10 seconds.
Yes. Sikkimese, Bhutia and Drenjongke are names for the same language.
$0.03125 per 1,000 characters, the same as every language.
Yes. Send Sikkimese in Tibetan script, the way it is written in Sikkim.
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 Sikkimese script and your clone reads it in your own voice, with Sikkimese pronunciation. Your natural accent carries over, so it sounds like you speaking Sikkimese.
More languages
See text to speech in every language, the full list of 250+ languages, pricing, the Pāṇini TTS API, or transcribe Sikkimese 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.