Kurdish Text to Speech
Turn Kurdish text into natural speech with AI voices. 1 voices. Free, no signup — download as MP3 or WAV.
Wrap your text in SSML tags for precise control:
<speak><prosody rate="slow">Slow speech</prosody></speak>
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About Kurdish text to speech
Kurdish is not a single uniform language, and that distinction matters more for text-to-speech than for almost anything else. The voice here speaks Kurmanji, the northern variety written in the Latin-based Hawar alphabet used across Turkey, Syria, and the diaspora. Sorani, the central variety dominant in Iraqi Kurdistan, is written in a Perso-Arabic script and differs enough in grammar and vocabulary that it needs its own voice entirely. Kurmanji itself brings real complexity: it marks grammatical gender, uses an ezafê linking construction to bind nouns to their modifiers, and follows a split-ergative pattern in which past-tense transitive clauses align differently from present-tense ones. As an Iranian language written in a phonemic Latin alphabet, it synthesizes cleanly once the model has learned those patterns, and demand comes largely from broadcast media, diaspora communication, and humanitarian and educational messaging.
Sample — Kurdî
“Teknolojiya guhertina nivîsê bo deng alîkariya xwendekar û pisporan dike ku nivîsên xwe bi hêsanî guhdarî bikin.”
- Native name
- Kurdî
- Speakers
- Around 30 million Kurdish speakers, of whom Kurmanji is the most widely spoken variety
- Language family
- Iranian (Indo-European)
- Script
- Latin (Hawar alphabet)
- Spoken in
- South-eastern Turkey, northern Syria, northern Iraq, north-western Iran, and a large diaspora across Germany and wider Europe
