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Kabir, an Indian English male AI voice
Kabir is a male Indian English voice for Pāṇini TTS, with a relaxed, professional tone. The playground opens with the sentence from Kabir's own reference recording; replace it with your script and press play.
Hi there, your EMI is scheduled to go out next week, just make sure there's enough balance so the payment doesn't bounce.
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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 Kabir
What Kabir suits
Kabir speaks English with an Indian accent in a relaxed, professional tone. It suits personal finance and career explainers, and phone or gadget reviews.
- Language
- English
- Accent
- Indian
- Tone (catalogue)
- Relaxed, Professional
- Gender
- Male
- Model
- Pāṇini TTS
Sample lines
Three lines to try with Kabir
Lines a creator would really use in English. Each one plays live in Kabir's voice; copy any of them into the playground to change it.
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Languages
Kabir can read other languages too
A Pāṇini TTS voice is not locked to one language. The language comes from the text you type, so Kabir can read any of the 250+ languages Pāṇini TTS supports, including text that mixes two languages.
Kabir'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
Kabir, answered
Yes. Play Kabir 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 Kabir 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. Kabir can read any of the 250+ languages Pāṇini TTS supports, because the language comes from the text you type, not from the voice. Kabir'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 Kabir
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.