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Voices · German
Marlene, a German female AI voice
Marlene is a female German voice for Pāṇini TTS, with a helpful, calm tone. The playground opens with the sentence from Marlene's own reference recording; replace it with your script and press play.
Hallo, ich wollte nur kurz bestätigen, dass Ihr Termin morgen Nachmittag ist, bitte seien Sie pünktlich, und sagen Sie uns Bescheid, falls sich etwas ändert.
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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 Marlene
What Marlene suits
Marlene reads German with a standard accent in a helpful, calm tone. It suits app tutorials, science explainers and fairy-tale narration.
- Language
- German
- Accent
- Standard
- Tone (catalogue)
- Helpful, Calm
- Gender
- Female
- Model
- Pāṇini TTS
Sample lines
Three lines to try with Marlene
Lines a creator would really use in German. Each one plays live in Marlene's voice; copy any of them into the playground to change it.
Explainer
Warum ist der Himmel eigentlich blau? Die Antwort ist einfacher, als man denkt.
Why is the sky actually blue? The answer is simpler than you'd think.
Fairy tale
Es war einmal ein kleiner Drache, der große Angst vor Feuer hatte.
Once upon a time there was a little dragon who was very afraid of fire.
Languages
Marlene can read other languages too
A Pāṇini TTS voice is not locked to one language. The language comes from the text you type, so Marlene can read any of the 250+ languages Pāṇini TTS supports, including text that mixes two languages.
Marlene's accent carries over: a script in another language sounds like a German speaker reading it. That is useful for bilingual channels; for a native sound in another language, choose a voice recorded in it.
More on German text to speech. See text to speech in every language.
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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 German 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
Marlene, answered
Yes. Play Marlene 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 Marlene 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. Marlene can read any of the 250+ languages Pāṇini TTS supports, because the language comes from the text you type, not from the voice. Marlene's accent carries over, so a script in English sounds like a German speaker reading English. For a native sound in another language, pick a voice recorded in it from the full voice list.
Make your first German voice-over with Marlene
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.