2 voices · Modern Standard Arabic · 48 kHz
Arabic text to speech
Two Arabic voices in Modern Standard Arabic, the formal Arabic of news, education and official communication: Omar, a deep pan-Arab news anchor, and Nadia, a measured, clear and dignified narrator. Paste your script in Arabic script, right to left, and hear it read in the Arabic that listeners across the region understand.
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Nadia
Female · adult
“مرحباً، وأهلاً بكم. لنبدأ الآن.”
Hello, and welcome. Let’s begin now.
- arabic
- clear
- dignified
Omar
Male · adult · Modern Standard Arabic
“مساء الخير، وأهلاً بكم في نشرة الأخبار. نبدأ نشرتنا بتطورات الأحوال الجوية، حيث يُتوقع هطول أمطار غزيرة على المناطق الساحلية.”
Good evening, and welcome to the news. We begin our bulletin with the latest on the weather, as heavy rain is expected in coastal areas.
- news
- formal
- authoritative
About Arabic in Voxmint
Spoken Arabic varies a great deal from Morocco to Iraq, but Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is shared by all of them. It is the language of television news, schoolbooks, official announcements and most written media, which makes it the safest choice for audio meant for a broad Arabic-speaking audience. Both catalogue voices speak this formal register.
Omar sounds like a pan-Arab television news anchor: deep, resonant and composed, at a steady, formal pace. Nadia is calmer and lighter, a measured voice in her thirties that is clear and dignified. Use Omar where authority matters, such as bulletins, policy updates and formal lectures, and Nadia for explainers, onboarding and longer readings where a gentler voice is easier to listen to.
Write your script in Arabic letters rather than transliteration, which is likely to be misread. Arabic usually leaves out the short vowels, and some words can be read more than one way without them. If one word keeps coming out wrong, add the tashkeel (vowel marks) to that word alone and listen again; fully vowelled text is rarely needed.
Numbers, dates, currencies and abbreviations can be read in several ways, so write them out in words when the exact reading matters. Brand names, acronyms and English terms inside Arabic text are worth a short test; if one sounds off, rewrite it in Arabic letters the way a reader would say it. Commas and full stops control the pacing, and splitting long, nested sentences gives the voice natural places to breathe.
There are no dialect voices in the catalogue yet: no Egyptian, Gulf, Levantine or Maghrebi speaker. You can try one with voice design by describing the speaker, for example an Egyptian woman in her twenties, and writing the script in that dialect, but results vary more than with the MSA voices, so compare a few takes and have a native speaker approve the one you keep.
Design a Arabic voice
Describe the voice you want, for example:
A warm Arabic-speaking woman in her forties with a soft, low voice and a slow, gentle pace, like a narrator reading a bedtime story in clear Modern Standard Arabic.
Voice design creates a new voice from that description, no recording needed.
Use cases
What people make with Arabic voices
News and announcements
Omar’s anchor delivery suits news roundups, official announcements and policy updates that must sound formal and trustworthy.
E-learning and training
Nadia’s clear, measured voice carries lessons, training modules and onboarding sequences, and stays the same speaker across every one.
Explainer and corporate video
Use Omar for serious corporate and institutional films, or Nadia for a calmer explainer that walks viewers through a product or process.
Accessibility and audio articles
Turn articles, reports and documents into audio for readers who prefer to listen, in an Arabic every audience can follow.
Script prototypes
Hear an Arabic script read aloud before booking a narrator, so you can fix wording and timing early.
Questions
- Which Arabic do the voices speak?
- Both speak Modern Standard Arabic, the formal Arabic used in news and education. Omar is a news-anchor voice and Nadia a clear, dignified narrator.
- Are there Egyptian, Gulf or Levantine voices?
- Not as ready-made voices. You can describe a dialect speaker with voice design and write your script in that dialect, but results vary more than with the MSA voices, so test carefully and have a native speaker check the audio.
- Do I need to add tashkeel (vowel marks)?
- Usually not. Write normal Arabic and listen. If a particular word is read the wrong way, add the vowel marks to that word only and generate again.
- Can I mix Arabic and English in one script?
- Short English names and terms can work, but listen to a test first. If a term sounds wrong, write it in Arabic letters the way it should be said.
- Can I make my own Arabic voice?
- Yes. Describe the voice you want in a sentence, its age, accent, mood and pace, and voice design creates it for your Arabic script. Save the description to your library to reuse it, or pick Omar or Nadia when you need exactly the same speaker every time.
- Is it free to try?
- Yes. You can listen to both Arabic voices and try your own script for free; signing up takes a minute.