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Yemeni Arabic Text to Speech and AI Voice Generator
Paste a script in Yemeni dialect, pick a voice and press Play to hear Yemeni Arabic text to speech.
Edit the text, pick a voice and press Play. Listen as often as you like before you sign up. Write place names in Arabic, such as صنعاء and المكلا, since Latin spellings vary.
2 voices
Yemeni Arabic text to speech voices, male and female
Listen2It has 2 Yemeni Arabic voices, 1 male and 1 female. Press Use this voice to load one into the tool. Filter by gender.
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Yemeni Arabic covers several dialects. Sanaa and the northern highlands sound different from Taiz and Aden in the south, from Hadramawt in the east and from the Tihama coast. Many words are shared, such as اشتي for I want and ذلحين for now. Choose these voices for local shops, aid messages or greetings for Yemeni families abroad.
Sanaani speakers usually say ق as g, so قريب comes out close to garib. Arabic spelling does not show this, and an unchanged word may be read with the Standard q. If the sound matters for a character, test the line both ways and save the version you prefer in the pronunciation dictionary.
Hadrami speech, from Mukalla to Tarim, has its own sound, and it travelled with traders to the Gulf, East Africa and Southeast Asia. Yemeni communities in Saudi Arabia, Britain and the United States often speak dialect at home but read Standard Arabic. On Socotra many people speak Soqotri, a separate language, so check what your listeners actually use first.
Three steps
How to convert Yemeni Arabic text to speech in three steps
Add your script
Type or paste Yemeni Arabic 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.
What's free
Free plan
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 Yemeni Arabic 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. Yemeni Arabic 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.
Follow your audience. A message for Sanaa should use highland words, and a spot for Aden should sound southern. If one script must reach the whole country, keep the dialect light and use words most Yemenis share. Then ask a local listener which voice fits.
Often, when they are heard rather than read. Radio spots, phone messages and loudspeaker notices reach people who read little, and plain dialect is easier to follow. Keep printed leaflets and statements in Standard Arabic, and read the dialect script to a Yemeni colleague first.
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