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Arabic Text to Speech تحويل النص إلى صوت طبيعي

Paste Arabic text and hear it read naturally, right to left — calm guides, friendly hosts, storytellers and clear phone voices. Add diacritics for exact pronunciation.

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  • Right-to-left text
  • Diacritics supported
  • MiniMax & ElevenLabs
  • Free credits

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What is Arabic text to speech (“تحويل النص إلى صوت”)?

Kenerate AI's Arabic text to speech reads Arabic script right to left in natural voices, for videos and lessons. It has two native Arabic voices on MiniMax, and any of the 41 ElevenLabs voices can speak Arabic. Voices read Modern Standard Arabic best; add diacritics where a word could be read two ways.

Key facts

Native Arabic voices
2 on MiniMax
Other engines
ElevenLabs Eleven v3 & Multilingual v2
Best for
Modern Standard Arabic (فصحى)
Diacritics
Supported — improve accuracy
Free start
Starter credits, no watermark

Listen first

Four Arabic voices, real outputs

Each card shows the exact Arabic script with an English translation. The words light up as they're spoken.

Calm Woman

MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD · MiniMax

ArabicCalmWellness

مرحبًا بكم. خذوا نفسًا عميقًا، ودعوا أكتافكم ترتاح قليلًا.

Welcome. Take a deep breath and let your shoulders relax a little.

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Friendly Guy

MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD · MiniMax

ArabicFriendlyTravel

أهلًا وسهلًا بكم في قناتنا! اليوم سنتعرف على أجمل الأماكن في المدينة القديمة.

Welcome to our channel! Today we'll discover the most beautiful places in the old city.

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Alicia

ElevenLabs Eleven v3 · ElevenLabs

ArabicPhone menuClear

شكرًا لاتصالكم. ساعات العمل من الأحد إلى الخميس، من التاسعة صباحًا حتى الخامسة مساءً.

Thank you for calling. Opening hours are Sunday to Thursday, from nine in the morning until five in the evening.

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George

ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 · ElevenLabs

ArabicStorytellerWarm

في قديم الزمان، كان هناك تاجر يسافر عبر الصحراء بحثًا عن نجمة لا تغيب.

Once upon a time, there was a merchant who travelled across the desert in search of a star that never sets.

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How to

How to use Kenerate Arabic Text to Speech

Time needed
Steps
4 steps

  1. Step 1

    Paste your Arabic text

    Up to 10,000 characters per clip on MiniMax and ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 (5,000 on Eleven v3 and Qwen3).

  2. Step 2

    Pick a Arabic voice

    Filter by Arabic for MiniMax's Calm Woman and Friendly Guy, or pick any ElevenLabs voice and write in Arabic.

  3. Step 3

    Set the delivery

    Emotion, speed and pitch on MiniMax; stability and audio tags on ElevenLabs; a style prompt on Qwen3.

  4. Step 4

    Generate and download

    MP3 (or WAV/FLAC on MiniMax), no watermark, saved to your history.

1Write or paste your script2Pick a voice3Choose the audio model4Click Generate speech5Play and download your clip
Kenerate AI Voice Studio text to speech script box with a narration script typed in

Open Voice Studio in Text to speech and type the words you want spoken, or start from a script template.

1 / 5 · Write or paste your script

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Chapters

Use cases

Arabic voice-overs for every channel

Reach Arabic speakers without booking a studio.

  • YouTube & Shorts in Arabic

    Publish a Arabic version of every video with one consistent voice.

  • Arabic lessons & courses

    Model pronunciation for vocabulary, dialogues and listening practice.

  • Phone menus & voicemail

    Arabic IVR prompts and greetings for your callers.

  • Stories & audiobooks

    Narrators for Arabic fiction, kids' tales and long reads.

  • Ads & product videos

    Arabic spots and demos for local campaigns.

  • Accessibility

    Audio versions of Arabic notices, articles and documents.

Engines

Engines that speak Arabic

Facts from the Voice Studio's code. The maker's real model name is shown on every clip.

  • MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD title card — a high-fidelity studio microphone with seven waves in seven emotion colours radiating from it

    MiniMax

    MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD

    Languages
    40 languages
    Per clip
    10,000 characters per clip

    Most natural MiniMax voice; 7 emotions, (laughs)/(sighs) interjections, pronunciation dictionary

    Open MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD
  • ElevenLabs Eleven v3 title card — a fictional adult voice actor's silhouette in a recording booth

    ElevenLabs

    ElevenLabs Eleven v3

    Languages
    70 languages
    Per clip
    5,000 characters per clip

    Most expressive; audio tags like [whispers], [laughs], [excited]

    Open ElevenLabs Eleven v3
  • ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 title card — a long

    ElevenLabs

    ElevenLabs Multilingual v2

    Languages
    29 languages
    Per clip
    10,000 characters per clip

    Lifelike and consistent over long reads

    Open ElevenLabs Multilingual v2

Controls

Shape the Arabic read

The same controls work in every language.

  • Speed · 0.5× – 2×

    MiniMax voices. 1× is the natural pace; 0.85–0.95× suits narration and learners, 1.1–1.2× suits ads and recaps.

  • Pitch · −12 to +12

    MiniMax voices, in semitones. A few steps down sounds bigger and older; a few up sounds lighter and younger.

  • Emotion · 7 moods

    MiniMax: neutral, happy, sad, angry, fearful, disgusted, surprised — the same words, a different read.

  • Interjections & tags · (laughs) · [whispers]

    MiniMax 2.8 reads 13 cues like (laughs), (sighs), (breath); ElevenLabs Eleven v3 reads audio tags like [whispers], [excited], [sarcastic].

  • Stability · 0 – 1

    ElevenLabs. Lower = more expressive and varied between takes; higher = steadier and more even.

  • Output · MP3 · WAV · FLAC

    MiniMax lets you pick the format and sample rate (16–44.1 kHz); every clip downloads without a watermark.

Scripts

نصوص للتجربة

Arabic scripts to audition voices with — open any in the studio.

  • إعلان

    عرض خاص هذا الأسبوع فقط: خصم عشرين بالمئة على جميع المنتجات.

    Special offer this week only: twenty percent off all products.

  • تأمل

    أغمض عينيك، وتنفس ببطء. دع كل فكرة تمر مثل غيمة في السماء.

    Close your eyes and breathe slowly. Let every thought pass like a cloud in the sky.

  • مع التشكيل

    العِلْمُ نُورٌ، والجَهْلُ ظَلامٌ.

    With diacritics: Knowledge is light, and ignorance is darkness.

  • إعلان صوتي

    يرجى من السادة المسافرين التوجه إلى البوابة رقم خمسة.

    Passengers are kindly asked to proceed to gate number five.

Tips

Better Arabic audio

Diacritics and clear punctuation make the biggest difference.

  • Add diacritics (tashkeel) to names and ambiguous words — without them, كتب could be kataba, kutub or kutiba.

  • Write in Modern Standard Arabic for the most natural result; dialect spelling varies too much between countries.

  • Use Arabic punctuation (، ؛ ؟) — it gives the voice its pauses.

  • Write numbers as words when the reading matters (خمسة وعشرون).

  • Keep English brand names in Latin letters; the voice switches smoothly.

  • Compare a native MiniMax voice with ElevenLabs Eleven v3 on the same text.

Example uses

How creators use Arabic text to speech

Illustrative examples of typical workflows, not customer reviews.

  • Overhead table of hummus, fattoush, kebabs and flatbread

    Cooking channel host

    A cooking channel host could paste an Arabic video intro and generate a friendly voice-over for each episode.

  • Misty desert dunes at sunrise

    Meditation app creator

    A meditation app creator could add diacritics to a calm Arabic script and pick a soft native voice.

  • Reed pen, inkwell, blank paper and headphones on a desk

    Arabic teacher

    An Arabic teacher could turn a lesson on sun and moon letters into clear audio for students to replay.

FAQ

Arabic Text to Speech questions

What's the best Arabic text to speech?

Try MiniMax's native Arabic voices and ElevenLabs Eleven v3 on the same script — Kenerate's free credits cover both, with no watermark.

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Does it support Egyptian, Gulf or Levantine dialects?

The voices are strongest in Modern Standard Arabic. They can read dialect text, but spelling for dialects isn't standardised, so results vary — test a short line first.

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Do I need to add diacritics (tashkeel)?

Not usually. Neural voices infer vowels from context, but adding diacritics to names and ambiguous words gives exact pronunciation.

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Does it read right to left correctly?

Yes. Arabic text is read in the correct order, and mixed Arabic-English sentences are handled.

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Can an English voice speak Arabic?

Yes. ElevenLabs Eleven v3 and Multilingual v2 voices can read Arabic text, so one voice can do both languages.

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Is Arabic text to speech free?

A free Kenerate account starts with free credits, usable on any Arabic voice, with no watermark.

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كيف أحوّل النص العربي إلى صوت مجانًا؟

أنشئ حسابًا مجانيًا في Kenerate يبدأ برصيد مجاني ومن دون علامة مائية، ثم الصق النص العربي في Voice Studio واختر أحد صوتَي MiniMax العربيين الأصليين أو أي صوت من أصوات ElevenLabs، واضغط توليد وحمّل الملف بصيغة MP3 أو WAV. يُقرأ النص من اليمين إلى اليسار بالترتيب الصحيح، وأفضل النتائج مع العربية الفصحى، ويمكنك إضافة التشكيل للكلمات التي تحتمل أكثر من قراءة.

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In depth

Arabic Text to Speech, explained

What works, what to avoid, and how the pieces fit.

On this page

Modern Standard Arabic and the dialects

Modern Standard Arabic (MSA, فصحى) is the shared written and formal spoken language across the Arab world, used in news, books and official speech [1]. Everyday speech happens in regional varieties — Egyptian, Levantine, Gulf, Maghrebi and others — which differ in vocabulary and pronunciation [2]. For TTS, MSA gives the most predictable, natural results.

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We build and run the Kenerate Voice Studio. Every demo on this page is a real output of the engine and voice named on it, made from the script shown; engine facts were checked against the app's code.

Sources: Kenerate Voice Studio (engines, voices and limits from the app's code) · MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD on WaveSpeed · ElevenLabs Eleven v3 on WaveSpeed · ElevenLabs — text to speech documentation · Wikipedia — Modern Standard Arabic · Wikipedia — Varieties of Arabic · Wikipedia — Arabic diacritics

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