YouTube intro, in French
Bonjour à toutes et à tous, et bienvenue sur la chaîne ! Aujourd'hui, on parle de la cuisine de Kayes.
Hello everyone, and welcome to the channel! Today, we're talking about the food of Kayes.
Voices · Soninke
Mamadou, a Soninke male AI voice
Mamadou is a male Soninke voice for Pāṇini TTS, with a professional, calm tone. The playground opens with the sentence from Mamadou's own reference recording; replace it with your script and press play.
An xire! I ga na? Tana nta? I renmu do i yaxare ga na? Alla ma barka.
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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 Mamadou
What Mamadou suits
Mamadou is a Soninke voice with a professional, calm tone, for Soninke speakers in Mali, Senegal, Mauritania and the Gambia, and the diaspora in France. It suits greetings, community announcements and short spoken messages. Because a voice's accent carries over, it can also read French scripts with a Soninke speaker's accent.
- Language
- Soninke
- Accent
- Standard
- Tone (catalogue)
- Professional, Calm
- Gender
- Male
- Model
- Pāṇini TTS
Sample lines
Three lines to try with Mamadou
Soninke creator lines are waiting for a native speaker. Until then, the playground opens with Mamadou's own Soninke line, and the three lines below show Mamadou reading French, which many Soninke speakers also use.
Story opening, in French
Il était une fois, au bord du fleuve Sénégal, un vieux pêcheur qui connaissait toutes les histoires du village.
Once upon a time, on the banks of the Senegal River, there was an old fisherman who knew every story in the village.
End screen, in French
Si la vidéo vous a plu, abonnez-vous et partagez-la avec vos proches.
If you liked the video, subscribe and share it with the people close to you.
Languages
Mamadou can read other languages too
A Pāṇini TTS voice is not locked to one language. The language comes from the text you type, so Mamadou can read any of the 250+ languages Pāṇini TTS supports, including text that mixes two languages.
Mamadou's accent carries over: a script in another language sounds like a Soninke speaker reading it. That is useful for bilingual channels; for a native sound in another language, choose a voice recorded in it.
Nearby languages
Voices close to Soninke
Browse all 63 voices by language, make a clone of your own voice from a 10-second sample, start from the free voice-over scripts, or see everything for creators.
Commercial use
Use Soninke 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
Mamadou, answered
Yes. Play Mamadou 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 Mamadou 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. Mamadou can read any of the 250+ languages Pāṇini TTS supports, because the language comes from the text you type, not from the voice. Mamadou's accent carries over, so a script in English sounds like a Soninke speaker reading English. For a native sound in another language, pick a voice recorded in it from the full voice list.
Make your first Soninke voice-over with Mamadou
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.