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Sri Lankan Tamil Text to Speech and AI Voice Generator
Sri Lankan Tamil text to speech for Jaffna or Colombo scripts: type your Tamil and press Play.
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Edit the text, pick a voice and press Play. Listen as often as you like before you sign up. Write town names in Tamil: மட்டக்களப்பு, not Batticaloa.
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Sri Lankan Tamil text to speech voices, male and female
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Sri Lankan Tamil is spoken in Jaffna and the north, on the east coast at Trincomalee and Batticaloa, and in Colombo. Indian Tamil listeners spot it within a sentence. Yes is ஓம், the verb for talking is கதை rather than பேசு, and a boy in Jaffna is a பெடியன். Choose these voices for Sri Lankan listeners and the diaspora.
The spoken forms have no fixed spelling. Jaffna speakers say இண்டைக்கு for today and எண்டு where Indian speech says னு, and polite requests end in ங்கோ, as in வாங்கோ. Write them as your audience says them, keep one spelling throughout, and preview. Many Sri Lankan Muslims also speak Tamil at home, with words of their own.
Not every Sri Lankan Tamil sounds like Jaffna. Families on the hill-country tea estates came from South India in the colonial era, and their speech is closer to Indian Tamil. In Colombo, Tamil borrows Sinhala and English words freely. Sinhala place names such as Kurunegala are worth a listen, and a misread one can go in the pronunciation dictionary.
Three steps
How to convert Sri Lankan Tamil text to speech in three steps
Add your script
Type or paste Sri Lankan Tamil text, or import a .txt, .docx or .pdf file up to 500KB, or a web page by URL.
Pick a voice and shape the delivery
Play the samples, choose a voice, add pauses where the listener needs a breath, and set how any word is read with the pronunciation dictionary.
Generate and download
Export an MP3, a voice and music mix, or SRT captions.
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Everything you need to hear your script
- The Free plan costs $0.
- Every voice is included.
- Preview voices as often as you like.
- A free account gets 2,500 credits once, not every month. That is about 2,500 words of text to speech.
- Download your audio as an MP3.
- The Free plan is for personal and evaluation use. Paid plans add commercial rights.
Answers
Frequently asked questions
Yes. You can play any voice on this page before you sign up. The full library has 1,411 voices across 160 languages and dialects.
Write or import your Sri Lankan Tamil script, choose a voice and press Generate. To download the MP3, create a free account: downloads work on the Free plan. You can also export a voice and music mix or SRT captions.
Yes. The Free plan costs $0 and includes every voice, with a one-time allowance of 2,500 credits, about 2,500 words. It is for personal and evaluation use.
Yes. Sri Lankan Tamil has 1 male and 1 female voices. Use the gender filter above the voice list and try a few with your own first line.
Yes, on a paid plan: paid plans include commercial rights, and the Free plan is for personal and evaluation use only. Starter costs $5 for the first month, then $19 a month.
Preview the line first. If a number, date or abbreviation comes out wrong, write it the way it should be spoken, or add it to the pronunciation dictionary, which is on every plan. One entry fixes that word across the whole project.
The script and written standard are shared, so a formal text reads much the same in both countries. Speech differs more: pronunciation, everyday words and polite endings set Sri Lankan Tamil apart, and Jaffna forms often sound old-fashioned to Indian ears.
For most of those families it is the sound of home. Community radio, temple notices and wedding invitations in Toronto or London are typical uses. Younger listeners raised abroad mix in English, so keep sentences short and preview each mixed line.
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