Text to speech · اللهجة السودانية
Pāṇini TTS reads Sudanese Arabic, the Arabic of Khartoum and the Nile valley, in Arabic script; the samples on this page are read by Nour, an Arabic voice.
الباقة حقتكم بتتجدد يوم خمسة وعشرين الشهر ده بعشرة آلاف جنيه. لو دايرين تغيّروا الـ plan لباقة أكبر، ممكن تعملوها هسي من الـ app، أو نرسل ليكم link في 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 Sudanese Arabic platform voice yet, so the playground uses Nour, a voice recorded in another language: the Sudanese Arabic text is read correctly, in that voice's accent. For a local accent, clone a native Sudanese Arabic speaker from a 10-second recording and use that voice for every clip.
Sign up free, then send Sudanese 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 Sudanese Arabic
Sudanese Arabic is the lingua franca of Sudan and has a sound of its own. ق is a hard g, while ج stays a soft j. Its everyday words set it apart: "زول" (person, guy), "شنو" (what), "داير" (wanting, as in "داير شنو؟", what do you want?), "هسّي" or "هسع" (now) and "ياخ" (an informal "man, mate"). Where MSA says ماذا تريد, a Sudanese speaker says "داير شنو". The dialect also borrowed from Nubian, Beja and other languages of Sudan, and from English.
Since the war that began in 2023, millions of Sudanese have been displaced to Egypt, Chad and the Gulf, so Sudanese Arabic is now heard on service lines far from Khartoum. Customer messages mix in English ("الأونلاين", "التطبيق" beside "app", "الرصيد"). Pāṇini reads that mix in one voice. A Sudanese caller understands Egyptian and MSA, but a call that sounds Sudanese is easier to trust, especially for remittances and family matters.
Use cases
Transfer confirmations and account alerts for Sudanese families sending and receiving money from the Gulf, Egypt and Europe.
Clinics, telecoms and service companies in Cairo, Riyadh and Dubai speak to Sudanese customers in their own dialect.
Clear spoken updates for health, aid and community organisations serving Sudanese communities.
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 Sudanese 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 Sudanese Arabic script.
Your accent comes with it: a clone sounds like you speaking Sudanese 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 Sudanese 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": "الباقة حقتكم بتتجدد يوم خمسة وعشرين الشهر ده بعشرة آلاف جنيه. لو دايرين تغيّروا الـ plan لباقة أكبر، ممكن تعملوها هسي من الـ app، أو نرسل ليكم link في SMS.", "output_format": "mp3"}' \5 --output sudanese-arabic.mp3FAQ
Yes. The playground on this page reads up to 220 characters of Sudanese 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".
Nour, an Arabic voice, reads these samples; any voice can speak Sudanese Arabic, and you can clone a native speaker's voice from 10 seconds.
No. Juba Arabic, spoken in South Sudan, is a separate Arabic-based creole. This page covers the Arabic of Sudan.
Yes. English words inside a Sudanese sentence are read in the same voice.
$0.03125 per 1,000 characters, the same as every language and dialect. The first 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 Sudanese Arabic script and your clone reads it in your own voice, with Sudanese Arabic pronunciation. Your natural accent carries over, so it sounds like you speaking Sudanese Arabic.
More languages
See text to speech in every language, the full list of 250+ languages, pricing, the Pāṇini TTS API, or transcribe Sudanese Arabic 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.