Tamil · தமிழ்

Tamil AI voice generator and voice cloning

Tamil generation runs on the same Indian-language model as Hindi, which was trained on Indian-language speech rather than adapted from an English engine. In practice that mostly shows up in retroflex consonants and vowel length — the two things English-first systems reliably get wrong in Tamil.
Language
Tamil (தமிழ்)
Script
Tamil
Reference clip limit
12 seconds
Reach
roughly 80 million speakers across India, Sri Lanka and Singapore
Available on
Starter and above — the free tier generates English only

Type in Tamil script. English words mixed into a Tamil script are normalised before generation rather than dropped.

What is different about generating Tamil

  • Reference clips for Tamil are capped at 12 seconds, the same as every Indian-language model on the platform.
  • Roman-script Indian-language text and English words mixed into an Indian-language script are normalised before generation. Without that step, models trained only on native-script audio tend to skip Latin-script words silently rather than pronounce them.

Reference scripts to read in Tamil

These are the exact prompts Mayantar shows you in the recorder. Each one is timed to land inside the 12-second limit at a natural pace, and each covers something cloning models need: relaxed conversational prosody, spoken digits and dates, and a question with rising intonation. Read one aloud in a quiet room and you have a usable reference clip.

  1. வணக்கம், இது என் குரல், இன்று நான் ஒரு சிறிய மாதிரியைப் பதிவு செய்கிறேன். எனக்குப் புத்தகங்கள் படிப்பது பிடிக்கும்.
  2. சில எண்களைச் சொல்வோம்: 1, 2, 3, 4 மற்றும் 5. என் கூட்டம் காலை 9:30 மணிக்கு, மார்ச் 15 அன்று.
  3. ஒரு எளிய பதிவு எப்படி ஒருவரின் குரலைப் பிடித்து வைக்கிறது என்று எப்போதாவது யோசித்திருக்கிறீர்களா?

More detail on what makes a clip pass or fail is in our guide to recording a reference clip.

Tamil voice generation: common questions

Can I write Tamil in Roman letters?

Tamil generation expects Tamil script. Roman-script Tamil is not currently a separate language option the way Hinglish is for Hindi — if you write in Roman letters, convert to Tamil script first.

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Generate Tamil in your own voice

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