Gulf Arabic text to speech with eight Khaleeji voices
Eight Gulf voices - Emirati, Kuwaiti and Khaleeji - not a pan-Arab newsreader. Paste your text, hear it free, pay per character.
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Hear the difference
The same Arabic sentence, twice. Sultan is Emirati; Sara reads Modern Standard Arabic. Listen to the rhythm: Sultan's is quicker and more clipped, the way the Gulf speaks.
Gulf Arabic voices (Khaleeji)
All 8 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 Gulf 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 →
What a Gulf audience hears
Khaleeji, the Arabic of the Gulf coast, is spoken in the Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and the east of Saudi Arabia, and it is the voice of the region's own radio, advertising and television. Its sounds set it apart from Modern Standard Arabic and from the Egyptian and Levantine accents most voices fall back on: ق is usually a g, ج is often a y in Emirati and Kuwaiti speech, so رجّال sounds like rayyal, ك can turn into ch, and the rhythm is quick and clipped.
Sultan, Khalifa and Noura are Emirati, Maryam and Abu Salem Kuwaiti; Ghawi, Lama and Amira speak a general Gulf accent. Ghawi is a close, dynamic narrator and the most used Gulf voice in the library, Abu Salem a powerful Kuwaiti voice-over artist, Sultan clear and confident for media and narration, Khalifa a rich Emirati voice that also speaks English. Among the women, Lama is soft and emotional for storytelling, Noura young and polished, Amira poised and unhurried, Maryam warm and expressive. Omani, Bahraini and Qatari speech are not offered as voices of their own.
Write it the way the Gulf says it
A voice reads your words as written, so the script decides half of how local it sounds. Text in Modern Standard Arabic comes out as MSA with a Gulf colour. Write the dialect and the words are Gulf too: شلونك for how are you, أبي for I want, وايد for a lot, الحين for now. A short test of a few lines shows quickly whether a script sounds like the Gulf or like a translation.
How it works
Watch the full tutorial on YouTube
Paste your text
Up to 250,000 characters, voiced part by part when the text is long. Paste Gulf 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
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Does it speak Gulf dialect or read Modern Standard Arabic?
Both, depending on your text. The voices are Gulf speakers, so the delivery and the melody are Khaleeji either way. Write the script in dialect and the words are Gulf as well; write it in MSA and it is read as MSA with a Gulf colour.
Emirati, Kuwaiti or Saudi?
Sultan, Khalifa and Noura are Emirati; Maryam and Abu Salem are Kuwaiti; Ghawi, Lama and Amira speak a general Gulf accent. For Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Arabic page has eight Saudi voices of its own.
How do I pick a Gulf voice in the app?
Paste your Arabic text and Speecho detects the language. On the Enhanced and Premium tiers each Arabic voice carries a tag next to its name: MSA, Saudi, Gulf, Egyptian, Levantine or Moroccan. Choose one tagged Gulf.
How much does Gulf Arabic text to speech cost?
The eight voices on this page cost 110 credits per 1,000 characters on Enhanced or 160 on Premium. The Standard tier reads Arabic at 50 with MSA, Egyptian, Saudi and Moroccan voices of its own, but has no Gulf voice. No subscription; credits do not expire.
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