Horror story
في منتصف الليل، توقّفت الخطوات أمام الباب تماماً، ثم بدأ المقبض يدور ببطء.
At midnight, the footsteps stopped right outside the door, then the handle slowly began to turn.
Voices · Arabic
Tariq, an Arabic male AI voice
Tariq is a male Arabic voice for Pāṇini TTS, with a calm, expressive tone. The playground opens with the sentence from Tariq's own reference recording; replace it with your script and press play.
مرحباً، هذا تذكير سريع بأن قسط التأمين الخاص بك يستحق الدفع الأسبوع المقبل، يمكنك دفعه عبر الإنترنت خلال دقيقتين فقط، الأمر بسيط جداً.
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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 Tariq
What Tariq suits
Tariq also reads Modern Standard Arabic, and the calm but expressive tone gives a script room to build: mystery and horror narration, motivational Shorts and end screens. For a dialect, write the script in that dialect's spelling; the voice keeps its Modern Standard accent.
- Language
- Arabic
- Accent
- Modern Standard Arabic
- Tone (catalogue)
- Calm, Expressive
- Gender
- Male
- Model
- Pāṇini TTS
Sample lines
Three lines to try with Tariq
Lines a creator would really use in Arabic. Each one plays live in Tariq's voice; copy any of them into the playground to change it.
Motivation Short
لا تنتظروا اللحظة المثالية، ابدأوا الآن بما لديكم.
Don't wait for the perfect moment, start now with what you have.
End screen
إذا أعجبكم الفيديو، لا تنسوا الاشتراك في القناة، ونلقاكم في الحلقة القادمة.
If you liked the video, don't forget to subscribe, and see you in the next episode.
Languages
Tariq can read other languages too
A Pāṇini TTS voice is not locked to one language. The language comes from the text you type, so Tariq can read any of the 250+ languages Pāṇini TTS supports, including text that mixes two languages.
Tariq's accent carries over: a script in another language sounds like a Arabic speaker reading it. That is useful for bilingual channels; for a native sound in another language, choose a voice recorded in it.
More on Arabic text to speech. See text to speech in every language.
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Commercial use
Use Arabic 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
Tariq, answered
Yes. Play Tariq 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 Tariq 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. Tariq can read any of the 250+ languages Pāṇini TTS supports, because the language comes from the text you type, not from the voice. Tariq's accent carries over, so a script in English sounds like a Arabic speaker reading English. For a native sound in another language, pick a voice recorded in it from the full voice list.
Make your first Arabic voice-over with Tariq
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.