Arabic text to speech with native voices
Arabic text to speech with 10 native voices: four in Modern Standard Arabic, plus Egyptian, Saudi, Levantine and Moroccan. Paste up to 200,000 characters, hear every voice free and download an MP3. Pay per character from about $0.23 per minute of speech, no subscription.
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Hear the difference
The same Arabic sentence, twice. Sara is an Arabic speaker; Zoe reads Arabic with an English accent - the emphatic consonants (ص ض ط ظ) and ع are where non-native voices fail first.
Arabic voices (MSA)
Arabic voices (Levantine)
Arabic voices (Egyptian)
Arabic voices (Saudi)
Arabic voices (Moroccan)
All 10 run on the ElevenLabs tiers: Enhanced at 110 credits / 1,000 characters (≈ $0.23 per minute of speech) and Premium at 160 (≈ $0.33) for the most natural result. The Standard tier reads Arabic too at 50 credits, and for most languages it has native voices of its own. Every clip downloads as MP3. Browse the voice library →
Why a native Arabic voice matters
Arabic has a set of sounds that simply do not exist in English - the emphatics (ص ض ط ظ), the pharyngeal ع and ح, the glottal hamza - and vowels that are mostly unwritten, so the voice must infer them from grammar. This is where non-native TTS collapses: it approximates the emphatics with plain consonants and guesses the vowels wrong. Native voices produce the sounds properly and vocalise unvoweled text the way a news reader would.
Four voices read Modern Standard Arabic (فصحى) - the register of news, books and formal content, understood across the entire Arabic-speaking world: Sara and Ghizlane on the female side, Anas and Mazen on the male, the latter a deep advertising voice. Six carry regional colour: Masry and Haytham, Egyptian - the accent of Arab film and television - Jeddawi, Saudi, and Salma and the Jordanian Farah, Levantine, the conversational accent of the eastern Mediterranean, and Hamid, a young Moroccan voice suited to news - Darija sounds local in the Maghreb but is the hardest regional accent for listeners further east. For pan-Arab content choose MSA; for content aimed at one market, the regional voices sound local.
How it works
Watch the full tutorial on YouTube
Paste your text
Up to 200,000 characters, voiced part by part when the text is long. Paste Arabic text and the app detects the language.
Pick a voice
Every voice has a free sample in its own language - audition before spending a credit.
Play & download
Ready in seconds. Listen in the browser or download the MP3; clips stay in your history for 90 days.
Frequently asked questions
Is it Modern Standard Arabic or a dialect?
Both. Sara, Ghizlane, Anas and Mazen read MSA - right for news, education and formal content anywhere in the Arab world. Masry and Haytham are Egyptian, Jeddawi Saudi, Salma and Farah Levantine - the three most widely understood regional accents - and Hamid is Moroccan, for audiences in the Maghreb.
Does it handle unvoweled text?
Yes - like a human reader, the voices infer short vowels from context and grammar. Fully voweled text (with tashkeel) is followed as written, which helps for Quranic or teaching material.
Does it read numbers and mixed Arabic-English text?
Yes - numerals are read in Arabic, and English names or terms inside Arabic text are pronounced as English. Right-to-left text with embedded Latin fragments is handled correctly.
How much does Arabic text to speech cost?
Native Arabic voices exist on every tier: six on Standard at 50 credits per 1,000 characters, among them MSA, Egyptian, Saudi and Moroccan voices, and the ten on this page on Enhanced at 110 or Premium at 160. Arabic script is compact, so 1,000 characters carries more content than in English - the per-word cost is lower. No subscription.
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