Food Reel
This is the easiest masala chai you'll ever make, and the secret is when you add the ginger.
Voices · English
Diya, an Indian English female AI voice
Diya is a female Indian English voice for Pāṇini TTS, with a conversational, expressive tone. The playground opens with the sentence from Diya's own reference recording; replace it with your script and press play.
Hi, this is just a quick reminder that your premium is due next week, you can pay it online in under two minutes, easy as that.
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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 Diya
What Diya suits
Diya speaks English with an Indian accent in a conversational, expressive tone, close to how Indian creators talk to camera. It suits food Reels, daily vlogs and list-style Shorts for Indian audiences.
- Language
- English
- Accent
- Indian
- Tone (catalogue)
- Conversational, Expressive
- Gender
- Female
- Model
- Pāṇini TTS
Sample lines
Three lines to try with Diya
Lines a creator would really use in English. Each one plays live in Diya's voice; copy any of them into the playground to change it.
Daily vlog
Okay, so the plan was a quick trip to the market. Four hours later, here we are.
Shorts hook
Three apps every college student in India should have on their phone right now.
Languages
Diya can read other languages too
A Pāṇini TTS voice is not locked to one language. The language comes from the text you type, so Diya can read any of the 250+ languages Pāṇini TTS supports, including text that mixes two languages.
Diya's accent carries over: a script in another language sounds like a Indian English speaker reading it. That is useful for bilingual channels; for a native sound in another language, choose a voice recorded in it.
More on Indian English text to speech. See text to speech in every language.
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Nearby languages
Voices in related languages
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Commercial use
Use English 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
Diya, answered
Yes. Play Diya 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 Diya 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. Diya can read any of the 250+ languages Pāṇini TTS supports, because the language comes from the text you type, not from the voice. Diya's accent carries over, so a script in Spanish sounds like a Indian English speaker reading Spanish. For a native sound in another language, pick a voice recorded in it from the full voice list.
Make your first English voice-over with Diya
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.