# Arabic Text to Speech

> 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.

URL: https://kenerateai.com/arabic-text-to-speech
Publisher: Kenerate AI (https://kenerateai.com)
Last updated: 29 September 2026

## 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
- Demo "Calm Woman" (Arabic, MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD): script: مرحبًا بكم. خذوا نفسًا عميقًا، ودعوا أكتافكم ترتاح قليلًا. (Welcome. Take a deep breath and let your shoulders relax a little.)
- Demo "Friendly Guy" (Arabic, MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD): script: 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.)
- Demo "Alicia" (Arabic, ElevenLabs Eleven v3): script: 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.)
- Demo "George" (Arabic, ElevenLabs Multilingual v2): script: 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.)

## Steps
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. 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. Set the delivery — Emotion, speed and pitch on MiniMax; stability and audio tags on ElevenLabs; a style prompt on Qwen3.
4. Generate and download — MP3 (or WAV/FLAC on MiniMax), no watermark, saved to your history.

## In depth

### 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.

### Why diacritics matter
Arabic is usually written without short vowels. Readers fill them in from context, and so do neural voices. Diacritics mark those vowels explicitly [3], so adding them to names, rare words and religious or poetic text removes the guesswork.

### Right-to-left, mixed with English
Arabic runs right to left while numbers and Latin words run left to right. The studio keeps the reading order correct in mixed text; for the cleanest result, keep product names in Latin letters and spell out numbers where the reading matters.

References:
[1] Wikipedia — Modern Standard Arabic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Standard_Arabic
[2] Wikipedia — Varieties of Arabic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varieties_of_Arabic
[3] Wikipedia — Arabic diacritics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_diacritics

## FAQ
Q: What's the best Arabic text to speech?
A: Try MiniMax's native Arabic voices and ElevenLabs Eleven v3 on the same script — Kenerate's free credits cover both, with no watermark.

Q: Does it support Egyptian, Gulf or Levantine dialects?
A: 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.

Q: Do I need to add diacritics (tashkeel)?
A: Not usually. Neural voices infer vowels from context, but adding diacritics to names and ambiguous words gives exact pronunciation.

Q: Does it read right to left correctly?
A: Yes. Arabic text is read in the correct order, and mixed Arabic-English sentences are handled.

Q: Can an English voice speak Arabic?
A: Yes. ElevenLabs Eleven v3 and Multilingual v2 voices can read Arabic text, so one voice can do both languages.

Q: Is Arabic text to speech free?
A: A free Kenerate account starts with free credits, usable on any Arabic voice, with no watermark.

Q: كيف أحوّل النص العربي إلى صوت مجانًا؟
A: 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.

## Related pages
- Text to Speech: https://kenerateai.com/text-to-speech
- AI Voice Clone: https://kenerateai.com/ai-voice-clone-free
- Accent Generator: https://kenerateai.com/accent-generator
- AI Voice Generator: https://kenerateai.com/ai-voice-generator

## Sources
- Kenerate Voice Studio (engines, voices and limits from the app's code): https://kenerateai.com/app/voice
- MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD on WaveSpeed: https://wavespeed.ai/models/minimax/speech-2.8-hd
- ElevenLabs Eleven v3 on WaveSpeed: https://wavespeed.ai/models/elevenlabs/eleven-v3
- ElevenLabs — text to speech documentation: https://elevenlabs.io/docs/overview/capabilities/text-to-speech
- Wikipedia — Modern Standard Arabic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Standard_Arabic
- Wikipedia — Varieties of Arabic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varieties_of_Arabic
- Wikipedia — Arabic diacritics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_diacritics