Text to speech · తెలుగు
Telugu text to speech (Telugu TTS) turns Telugu text into natural speech in a native Telugu voice, Ananya. Paste Telugu, with the English words people mix in on calls, and play it free below with no login; it works as a Telugu text reader for longer text once you sign up. తెలుగులో టైప్ చేయండి, వెంటనే వినండి.
డాక్టర్ రమేష్ గారితో మీ appointment గురువారం, నవంబర్ ఐదో తేదీ, eleven thirty AM కి fix అయింది. ఒక రోజు ముందే SMS లో reminder పంపిస్తాను, పది నిమిషాలు ముందు వచ్చేయండి.
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 Telugu AI voice-over for YouTube and Reels. The audio is yours to use on monetised channels.
Last verified 24 October 2026
Ananya and Neha (both female) are native Telugu platform voices; Ananya reads the playground above. Any Sonex Labs voice can also read Telugu, and a voice cloned from a 10-second recording of a Telugu speaker keeps that speaker's accent.
Sign up free, then send Telugu 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.
Paste up to 220 characters of Telugu here to hear it read aloud; sign up to read longer text through the dashboard or the API. On call scripts, write clock times as English words in Telugu script ("టెన్ థర్టీకి") and dates in Telugu ("పదిహేనో తారీఖు"), the way Telugu speakers say them.
About Telugu
Telugu calls are polite in a particular way. గారు follows a name, as in "శర్మ గారు", and అండీ softens almost every sentence a support agent says, from "హలో అండీ" to "సరే అండీ". Leave them out and a reminder call sounds curt; read them stiffly and it sounds scripted. The samples on this page are written with them and read by Ananya, a native Telugu platform voice.
Telugu speakers also mix English more than written Telugu suggests, and in a predictable way. On a phone call, clock times are usually said in English ("ఫోర్ థర్టీ"), dates stay in Telugu ("పదిహేనో తారీఖు"), and English nouns take Telugu endings, as in అకౌంట్లో (in the account). Call scripts written that way, in Telugu script, sound like a person from Hyderabad or Vijayawada rather than a translation.
Use cases
Hospitals and diagnostic chains in Hyderabad, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam confirm appointments in Telugu.
Banks, NBFCs and microfinance lenders send EMI reminders across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
Narration and dubbing for Telugu audiences in India and the United States.
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 Telugu, 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 Telugu script.
Your accent comes with it: a clone sounds like you speaking Telugu, 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 Telugu 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": "డాక్టర్ రమేష్ గారితో మీ appointment గురువారం, నవంబర్ ఐదో తేదీ, eleven thirty AM కి fix అయింది. ఒక రోజు ముందే SMS లో reminder పంపిస్తాను, పది నిమిషాలు ముందు వచ్చేయండి.", "output_format": "mp3"}' \5 --output telugu.mp3FAQ
The one that reads your own script best. Paste a real Telugu message, with your numbers, names and English words, into each tool you are considering, listen on a phone speaker as well as headphones, and compare the price per 1,000 characters and what the free tier lets you download.
Yes. The playground on this page reads up to 220 characters of Telugu 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. Ananya is a native Telugu voice. Any Sonex Labs voice can also speak Telugu, and you can clone your own from a 10-second sample.
Yes, including English words with Telugu endings such as అకౌంట్లో, in the same voice.
Yes. Pāṇini is trained on 8 kHz phone audio, and the first audio arrives in under 200 ms, so it suits reminder calls and voice agents.
$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 Telugu script and your clone reads it in your own voice, with Telugu pronunciation. Your natural accent carries over, so it sounds like you speaking Telugu.
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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.