Urdu Text to Speech
Turn Urdu text into natural speech with AI voices. 2 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 Urdu text to speech
Urdu text-to-speech has to solve a problem most languages hand the model for free: the vowels are largely not written. Everyday Urdu omits the short-vowel diacritics, so the same consonant skeleton can be read several ways and the synthesizer must infer the intended vowels from context and word shape before it can pronounce anything at all. On top of that the language is written right-to-left in the cursive Nastaʿlīq style, draws its formal vocabulary from Persian and Arabic while sharing an everyday spoken core with Hindi, and preserves the aspirated and retroflex consonant contrasts of its Indo-Aryan family. Get those right and Urdu synthesis is genuinely useful: it reaches an audience where listening often beats reading, which is why demand comes from news, education, public-service messaging, and telecom IVR across Pakistan and the diaspora.
Sample — اردو
“متن سے آواز میں تبدیلی کی ٹیکنالوجی طالب علموں اور پیشہ ور افراد کو اپنی تحریریں آسانی سے سننے میں مدد دیتی ہے۔”
- Native name
- اردو
- Speakers
- Around 230 million speakers worldwide, the national language of Pakistan and one of India’s scheduled languages
- Language family
- Indo-Aryan (Indo-European)
- Script
- Perso-Arabic (Nastaʿlīq style)
- Spoken in
- Pakistan, northern and central India, and large diaspora communities in the United Kingdom, the Gulf states, and North America
