Arabic · العربية

Arabic AI voice generator and voice cloning

Arabic generation uses the multilingual path, cloning zero-shot from a reference clip of up to 12 seconds. The Mayantar interface itself is available in Arabic and renders right-to-left throughout.

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Language: Arabic (العربية)
Script: Arabic (right-to-left)
Reference clip limit: 12 seconds
Reach: over 350 million speakers across the Middle East and North Africa
Available on: Starter and above — the free tier generates English only

Arabic's specific challenge is that ordinary written Arabic omits short vowels. A word like كتب can be kataba, kutiba or kutub, and the script does not say which. Human readers disambiguate from context and so does the model — well for common phrasing, less well for isolated words, proper nouns and unusual constructions.

The other decision is register. Modern Standard Arabic and a regional dialect are not interchangeable, and which one you get depends on your reference clip rather than a setting.

What is different about generating Arabic

Reference recordings for this language are capped at 12 seconds, the same limit used throughout Mayantar.
Short vowels are inferred from context. Where a word must be read one specific way — a name, a Qur'anic quotation, a technical term — adding harakat (diacritics) to that word is the reliable fix.
MSA and dialect are decided by the reference recording. A Gulf reference produces Gulf Arabic; an MSA news-register reference produces MSA.
Latin-script words and Western numerals inside Arabic text are read as foreign material. Arabic-Indic numerals (٠١٢٣) are read as Arabic numbers.
Cloning is cross-lingual: a voice cloned from a clip in one language can generate in another on this path. It works, but it is not free — accent from the reference language carries over. Record in the language you intend to publish in unless a foreign accent is the point.

Recording a Arabic reference clip

Mayantar ships written prompts for English and the Indian languages; for Arabic the recorder offers the English prompts as a starting point, and you are better off reading Arabic of your own. Anything works as long as it is you talking normally — introduce yourself, describe what you are working on, read a paragraph of your own script.

Aim to fill most of the 12-second limit, keep it in one take, and include a question if you can: rising intonation is the thing a clone most often lacks when the reference was a flat, careful read.

The checks your clip has to pass — and the specific reasons clips get rejected — are in our guide to recording a reference clip.

Arabic voice generation: common questions

Do I have to add diacritics to my Arabic text?

Not generally — the model reads undiacritised Arabic the way a fluent reader does, from context. Add harakat to individual words where the reading has to be exact, such as proper names.

Can it generate a specific Arabic dialect?

To the extent your reference clip is in that dialect, yes. The clone inherits register and accent from the recording it was made from, so an Egyptian reference produces Egyptian Arabic.

Is the Mayantar interface available in Arabic?

The interface and the generation language are separate settings. Mayantar's interface ships in eleven languages, and the audio it generates can be in any of thirty-four — so you can run the app in English and generate Arabic, or the other way round where both are offered.

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Generate Arabic in your own voice

Record a 12-second clip, type your script, download the WAV. Arabic generation is on Starter and above, from ₹299 a month.

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