Horror story
ರಾತ್ರಿ ಹನ್ನೆರಡು ಗಂಟೆ. ಹಳೆಯ ಮನೆಯ ಮೇಲಿನ ಕೋಣೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಇದ್ದಕ್ಕಿದ್ದಂತೆ ದೀಪ ಹೊತ್ತಿಕೊಂಡಿತು.
Midnight. Suddenly a lamp lit up in the upstairs room of the old house.
Voices · Kannada
Arjun, a Kannada male AI voice
Arjun is a male Kannada voice for Pāṇini TTS, with a calm, expressive tone. The playground opens with the sentence from Arjun's own reference recording; replace it with your script and press play.
ನಿಮ್ಮ appointment ನಾಳೆ ಸಂಜೆ ಇದೆ. ಸಮಯಕ್ಕೆ ಬನ್ನಿ. ಇನ್ನು ಏನಾದ್ರೂ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆ ಇದ್ರೆ ಹಿಂಜರಿಯದೆ ಕೇಳಿ. ನಾವು ಸಹಾಯ ಮಾಡಲು ಸಿದ್ಧರಿದ್ದೇವೆ.
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Kannada
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Free to play in your browser without an account, up to 220 characters at a time. To save the audio, sign up free for 10,000 characters and one voice clone, no card required: the dashboard saves WAV and the API returns MP3.
Last verified 26 October 2026
About Arjun
What Arjun suits
Arjun is a native Kannada voice with a calm, expressive tone. It suits horror and mystery stories, nature videos about the Western Ghats and simple explainers.
- Language
- Kannada
- Accent
- Native Kannada
- Tone (catalogue)
- Calm, Expressive
- Gender
- Male
- Model
- Pāṇini TTS
Sample lines
Three lines to try with Arjun
Lines a creator would really use in Kannada. Each one plays live in Arjun's voice; copy any of them into the playground to change it.
Nature video
ಪ್ರತಿ ಮಳೆಗಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ಜಲಪಾತ ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣ ಬದಲಾಗುತ್ತದೆ, ಆಗ ಇಡೀ ಕಾಡು ಜೀವ ತುಂಬಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತದೆ.
Every monsoon this waterfall changes completely, and the whole forest comes alive.
Explainer
ಸಿಡಿಲು ಬಡಿಯುವಾಗ ಮೊಬೈಲ್ ಬಳಸೋದು ನಿಜಕ್ಕೂ ಅಪಾಯನಾ? ಸುಲಭವಾಗಿ ತಿಳಿದುಕೊಳ್ಳೋಣ.
Is using a phone during lightning really dangerous? Let's understand it simply.
Languages
Arjun can read other languages too
A Pāṇini TTS voice is not locked to one language. The language comes from the text you type, so Arjun can read any of the 250+ languages Pāṇini TTS supports, including text that mixes two languages.
Arjun's accent carries over: a script in another language sounds like a Kannada speaker reading it. That is useful for bilingual channels; for a native sound in another language, choose a voice recorded in it.
More on Kannada text to speech and Kannada voice-over for YouTube. See text to speech in every language.
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Commercial use
Use Kannada AI voice-overs on monetised channels
- Use the audio in YouTube videos, Shorts, Instagram Reels, podcasts and ads, including on monetised channels.
- This applies to the free tier and to paid credits. No attribution to Sonex Labs is needed.
- You are responsible for your script, and for disclosing realistic synthetic content where a platform asks you to.
The full wording is in our terms of service.
YouTube
Can a channel with an AI voice be monetised?
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.
FAQ
Arjun, answered
Yes. Play Arjun on this page without an account, up to 220 characters at a time. A free account adds 10,000 characters and one voice clone, no card required. After that, Pāṇini TTS costs $0.03125 per 1,000 characters, the same rate for every language.
Yes, after free sign-up. The playground above plays Arjun in your browser only, with no account. Sign up free and the dashboard saves each clip as a WAV file (Download audio), or the API returns MP3 when you set "output_format": "mp3".
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. Arjun can read any of the 250+ languages Pāṇini TTS supports, because the language comes from the text you type, not from the voice. Arjun's accent carries over, so a script in English sounds like a Kannada speaker reading English. For a native sound in another language, pick a voice recorded in it from the full voice list.
Make your first Kannada voice-over with Arjun
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.