Malayalam Text to Speech
Turn Malayalam text into natural speech with AI voices. 2 voices. Free, no signup — download as MP3 or WAV.
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<speak><prosody rate="slow">Slow speech</prosody></speak>
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About Malayalam text to speech
Malayalam has one of the largest letter inventories of any Indian script and a set of features that make it among the hardest Dravidian languages to synthesise well. Chief among them are the chillu letters (chillaksharam) — special pure-consonant signs such as ൻ, ർ, ൽ, ൾ and ൺ that represent a consonant with no inherent vowel at all, the opposite of the abugida default — and a voice must recognise these as vowel-less or it will insert phantom vowels. Malayalam is also intensely agglutinative and applies pervasive sandhi, so separate words fuse at their boundaries into very long compound forms, and correct segmentation of these fused strings is essential for natural phrasing and pauses. As a Dravidian language it retains the inherent vowel elsewhere, keeps the full aspirated and retroflex series absorbed from Sanskrit, and stacks numerous conjunct consonants. Standard Malayalam is fairly uniform, which helps a single voice serve Kerala. Demand is strong and specific: Kerala PSC and other exam-preparation audio, a thriving Malayalam YouTube and film scene, state e-governance, and the enormous Malayali diaspora in the Gulf consuming news and entertainment by audio.
Sample — മലയാളം
“നമസ്കാരം, ഇന്ന് രാവിലെ കാലാവസ്ഥ വളരെ നല്ലതാണ്, നമുക്കെല്ലാവർക്കും ഒരുമിച്ച് നടക്കാൻ പോകാം.”
- Native name
- മലയാളം
- Speakers
- About 38 million native speakers, spoken almost entirely in Kerala
- Language family
- Southern branch of the Dravidian languages
- Script
- Malayalam (a Brahmic abugida with one of the largest letter inventories)
- Spoken in
- The Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahe), plus a very large Gulf diaspora
