Marathi Text to Speech
Turn Marathi 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 Marathi text to speech
Marathi is written in Devanagari, the same script as Hindi, and that surface similarity is precisely the trap for text-to-speech: Marathi's schwa-deletion rules differ from Hindi's, so a voice tuned for Hindi will drop or keep inherent vowels in the wrong places and sound subtly off to every Marathi listener. Marathi also uses a retroflex lateral, ळ, that does not exist in standard Hindi, and it pronounces the letters च and ज as the affricates 'tsa' and 'dza' before certain vowels — a distinction Hindi lacks entirely. The language has three grammatical genders (Hindi has two) and an inclusive-versus-exclusive 'we', features that shape word forms the voice must read fluently. Correct handling of anuswara nasalization and the language's characteristic consonant clusters rounds out the synthesis challenge. Because Marathi shares Devanagari with several languages, robust language detection matters so the voice applies Marathi rules rather than defaulting to Hindi. Demand comes from Maharashtra's large media and film sector, Mumbai-based news and entertainment, government and municipal services, and education across one of India's most populous states.
Sample — मराठी
“नमस्कार, आज सकाळपासून हवामान छान आहे, चला आपण सगळे मिळून फिरायला जाऊया आणि बातम्या ऐकूया.”
- Native name
- मराठी
- Speakers
- About 83 million native speakers, the third-most spoken language in India
- Language family
- Southern branch of the Indo-Aryan languages
- Script
- Devanagari (Balbodh style, with the extra letter ळ)
- Spoken in
- The Indian state of Maharashtra, where it is official, plus neighbouring Goa, Karnataka and Gujarat border areas and a Marathi diaspora
