Hindi text to speech with native voices
Monika, Devi, Niraj and Raju are Hindi speakers, not an English voice sounding out Devanagari. Paste your text, hear it free, pay per character.
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Hear the difference
The same Hindi sentence, twice. Monika is a Hindi speaker; Zoe is a universal voice reading Hindi with an English accent - listen to the ध in धीरे and the ट in स्क्रिप्ट, which is where the two part company.
The Hindi voices
All 4 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 Hindi 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 Hindi voice matters
Hindi asks a voice to hold two distinctions English does not have at all. The first is aspiration: क and ख, ग and घ, ज and झ differ only by the puff of air after the consonant, and a voice that drops it turns कहानी into something closer to kaani. The second is the retroflex series - ट, ठ, ड, ढ, ण are made with the tongue curled back, where English t and d sit on the ridge behind the teeth. An English-trained voice reads both series as its own alveolar consonants, and the result is intelligible but unmistakably foreign.
There is a third thing, less discussed and just as audible: schwa deletion. Written Devanagari carries an inherent a after most consonants, but Hindi drops many of them in speech - नमस्ते is namaste, not namasate. A voice that reads the script letter by letter adds syllables that native speakers never say. All four voices here are Hindi speakers. Monika is a clear professional narrator and Devi a warmer, younger voice for course material and explainers. Niraj is a deep male voice for documentary and long-form narration, Raju a conversational one that suits dialogue and social video.
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 Hindi 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 handle aspirated and retroflex consonants?
Yes - that is the main reason to use a native voice for Hindi. ख, घ, झ, ढ keep their aspiration, and the retroflex ट ठ ड ढ ण are made with the tongue curled back rather than being flattened into English t and d.
Can it read Hinglish - Hindi with English words mixed in?
Yes, and this is where most Hindi TTS breaks. English words written in Latin script inside a Devanagari sentence are read as English rather than transliterated, so a line like "यह feature अभी beta में है" comes out the way people actually say it.
Will it read Devanagari written without a schwa drop?
It reads the way Hindi is spoken, so the inherent a is dropped where speakers drop it. If you need a specific pronunciation, spelling the word phonetically in Devanagari is more reliable than punctuation tricks.
How much does Hindi text to speech cost?
Native Hindi voices exist on every tier: nine on Standard at 50 credits per 1,000 characters, and the four on this page on Enhanced at 110 or Premium at 160. A 1,000-character Hindi paragraph is roughly a minute of speech - about $0.10 on Standard or $0.23 on Enhanced at the $5 pack rate. No subscription, and confirming your email gives 150 free credits.
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