Text to speech · اردو
Urdu text to speech (Urdu TTS) reads text written in Urdu script aloud, with no conversion to Roman letters first. Play it free below with no login. There is no native Urdu platform voice yet: the playground uses Alok, a Hindi voice, and for a Pakistani Urdu accent you can clone a native speaker from a 10-second recording. اردو میں لکھیں اور فوراً سنیں۔
آپ کی گاڑی کی service جمعرات صبح ساڑھے نو بجے book ہو گئی ہے۔ کام تقریباً تین گھنٹے کا ہے، گاڑی تیار ہوتے ہی آپ کو SMS آ جائے گا، بس آتے وقت گاڑی کے کاغذات ساتھ لے آئیں۔
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 Urdu 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 Urdu platform voice yet. The playground uses Alok, a Hindi voice: the Urdu text is read correctly, in a Hindi speaker's accent. For a Pakistani or other local Urdu accent, clone a native Urdu speaker from a 10-second recording and use that voice for every clip.
Sign up free, then send Urdu 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 Urdu
Urdu is written right to left in the Perso-Arabic script, usually in the flowing Nastaliq style, and the short vowels are normally left out. The same letters can spell more than one word, so how a word sounds depends on knowing the language, not just the letters. Urdu also keeps sounds from Persian and Arabic that everyday Hindi often softens: ق (q), خ (kh), غ (gh), ز (z) and ف (f), as in قسط (instalment) and خوش آمدید (welcome).
Spoken Urdu and Hindi are close enough that a call in one is understood by speakers of the other, which is why Alok, a Hindi platform voice, can read the samples here. The differences are in script and vocabulary, and in courtesies such as آداب and the respectful آپ forms that Urdu speakers expect on a call. For a native Urdu accent, clone a native speaker's voice from a 10-second sample and use it for every call.
Use cases
Banks, clinics and delivery services in Hyderabad, Lucknow and elsewhere reach Urdu-speaking customers in the language and script they read.
Urdu narration for learning content, poetry and audiobooks.
Announcements and reminders for Urdu-medium schools and community organisations.
For creators
Urdu storytelling, poetry, history and drama recaps are some of the biggest faceless formats on YouTube. Write the script in Urdu script and play it above: Alok is a Hindi voice, so the words are read correctly, in an Indian accent. For a Pakistani accent on every video, clone a native speaker's voice from a 10-second recording; the free account includes one clone. That way this works as an Urdu AI voice generator free to start, Urdu voice over AI keeps one narrator across a series, and the Urdu text to speech MP3 is yours to download.
10,000 free text-to-speech characters and one free voice clone that speaks every language, no card required. That is about 10.8 minutes of narration, measured with Alok on Urdu text. The player above plays in your browser only, so you can check the voice with no account. To save the audio, sign up free: the dashboard saves each clip as a WAV file, and the API returns MP3 when you set "output_format": "mp3". More for video makers on the creators page.
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Commercial use
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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 Urdu, 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 Urdu script.
Your accent comes with it: a clone sounds like you speaking Urdu, 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 Urdu 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": "آپ کی گاڑی کی service جمعرات صبح ساڑھے نو بجے book ہو گئی ہے۔ کام تقریباً تین گھنٹے کا ہے، گاڑی تیار ہوتے ہی آپ کو SMS آ جائے گا، بس آتے وقت گاڑی کے کاغذات ساتھ لے آئیں۔", "output_format": "mp3"}' \5 --output urdu.mp3FAQ
Not as platform voices yet. Alok, a Hindi voice, reads Urdu script correctly but in a Hindi speaker's accent; for a Pakistani Urdu accent, clone a native speaker from a 10-second recording and use that voice for every call or video.
The one that reads your own script best. Paste a real Urdu 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 Urdu 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. Send the text in Urdu script.
Yes. Pāṇini is trained on 8 kHz phone audio, so calls stay clear on ordinary 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 Urdu script and your clone reads it in your own voice, with Urdu pronunciation. Your natural accent carries over, so it sounds like you speaking Urdu.
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