April 26, 2024
Looking for Arabic text-to-speech voices with accurate pronunciation and lifelike quality? Find out where to get them here.
Amy Foxwell4 min readLooking for lifelike Arabic text-to-speech (TTS) voices? ReadSpeaker has them!
We offer two top-quality synthetic voices in the Arabic language with natural Gulf accents—and if you’re looking for a custom Arabic voice to represent your brand, organization, or institution, we can help with that, too. We offer AI voice generation services to create TTS in the accent or dialect that best connects with your audience.
ReadSpeaker’s Arabic TTS solutions support all common technologies and configurations. They’re available online and off, and can be integrated into apps, platforms, and websites or embedded directly into devices.
These AI voices support TTS use cases across the Arabic-speaking world, including:
Here’s an introduction to our latest Arabic TTS voices, along with some details on what makes ReadSpeaker’s synthetic speech ideal for the Arabic-speaking market.
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Contact usReadSpeaker currently offers two AI voices in the Arabic language:
Amir is our male Arabic TTS voice, a warm and inviting speaker with a native Gulf accent.
Listen to Amir.
Yasmin is our female Arabic TTS voice, virtually indistinguishable from a live Gulf Arabic speaker.
Listen to Yasmin.
”[ReadSpeaker’s] innovative solutions and commitment to accessibility have empowered us to reach a wider audience and provide an inclusive experience for all. We remain committed to continuous improvement in accessibility, and Readspeaker will continue to be a trusted partner in this journey.” — Indigo Computer
(enlarge image) Audiences in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the broader Gulf region will find these voices welcoming and familiar. The human-like quality of ReadSpeaker TTS creates great user experiences for Arabic speakers across the globe, too. For example, here are just a few of the institutions that use Arabic TTS from ReadSpeaker:
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But perfecting Arabic text to speech wasn’t an easy task!
If you’ve had pronunciation problems with Arabic TTS, you’re not alone. Luckily, ReadSpeaker’s latest Arabic voices represent the cutting edge of AI voice technology—and their pronunciation accuracy is unprecedented.
Text-to-speech software has historically struggled with Arabic pronunciation.
That’s because Arabic script usually doesn’t indicate how long you should hold a consonant. It also rarely includes short vowels (like the a in cat). (See boxed text below for the exception.)
Native Arabic speakers recognize words by context, and add the unrepresented sounds themselves. That’s easy for humans, but very difficult for computers.
ReadSpeaker’s team of speech scientists and AI engineers developed a solution. Our proprietary deep neural networks were trained on native Arabic speech, so they learned how to predict accurate pronunciation a much higher percentage of the time.
And if you do run into errors with your TTS? We provide ongoing pronunciation support, including a custom pronunciation dictionary you can add to as you go.
Modern Arabic script dictates correct pronunciation with a set of diacritical marks, or diacritics. Diacritics are symbols that tell readers how a letter or string of letters should be pronounced in context.
They’re not typically used in English, except in borrowed words from languages like French (as in fiancé, with the acute diacritic over the final e), German (as in doppelgänger, with the umlaut diacritic on the a), or the like.
In modern Arabic, there are two types of diacritics: i‘jām and tashkīl .
Tashkīl are usually only found in writing that requires perfect pronunciation: scripture, poetry, and language-learning materials, for instance.
So you can’t count on tashkīl being included in the texts that flow through your TTS system. You need a TTS engine that’s designed to recognize the context in which a word appears, so it can accurately predict correct pronunciation. In other words, you need a TTS solution from ReadSpeaker.
ReadSpeaker’s TTS solutions are ideal for website accessibility. We offer simple integrations with all major learning management systems and corporate learning platforms, so they’re perfect for education, too. In fact, you’ll find ReadSpeaker TTS at large universities like King Faisal University and Princess Norah Bint Abdulrahman University in Saudi Arabia.
Our voices are found in smart speakers, digital book platforms, and government websites across the world. Our accurate, high-quality Arabic voices are particularly popular with media outlets, for whom pronunciation is key.
With Arabic TTS voices that sound like a real human speaker, you can bring the benefits of text to speech to your digital project, too.
Ready to get started? Contact us for Arabic TTS voices and other digital accessibility tools.
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