Free Text-To-Speech and Text-to-MP3 for Gulf Arabic

How to convert Gulf Arabic text to MP3

1. Type or paste your text into the box above (up to 3,000 characters per day for free).
2. Choose a voice from the list.
3. Click Read to listen in your browser, or Download as MP3 to save the audio file.

No account, no app and no AWS account are needed. Longer texts are processed in the background; please keep the page open until the audio is ready.

Free limit and premium plans

The free converter allows 3,000 characters per day (about 375 words). Your usage today is shown below the converter and resets every day.

Need more? Premium plans range from a 24-hour pass to monthly and yearly plans with up to 10 million characters. Every yearly plan includes access to the text-to-speech API.

Commercial use of the MP3 files

You may use the MP3 files created with ttsMP3 in commercial and non-commercial projects – for example YouTube voiceovers, podcasts, presentations, e-learning courses, websites and apps. This applies to free and paid usage, and you do not have to credit ttsMP3 (a mention is always appreciated). See commercial use of text to speech for details.

Gulf Arabic voices

For Gulf Arabic you can choose between these voices: Hala, Zayd. All of them are Amazon Polly voices and pronounce your text with a native Gulf Arabic accent. In total ttsMP3 offers 74 regular voices in 41 languages and accents.

Pauses, emphasis, speed and pitch (SSML)

You can control the speech with SSML tags directly in your text. Here are the most useful ones:

Add a break

Mary had a little lamb <break time="1s"/> Whose fleece was white as snow.

Emphasizing words

I already told you I <emphasis level="strong">really like</emphasis> that person.

Speed

For dramatic purposes, you might wish to <prosody rate="slow">slow down the speaking rate of your text.</prosody>
Or if you are in a hurry <prosody rate="fast">you may want to speed it up a bit.</prosody>

Pitch

Do you like synthesized speech <prosody pitch="high">with a pitch that is higher than normal?</prosody>
Or do you prefer your speech <prosody pitch="-20%">with a somewhat lower pitch?</prosody>

Whisper

<amazon:effect name="whispered">If you make any noise,</amazon:effect> she said, <amazon:effect name="whispered">they will hear us.</amazon:effect>

Conversations

You can switch between speakers within one text:

[speaker:Brian] Hello Emma
[speaker:Emma] Hey Brian
[speaker:Brian] How are you doing?
[speaker:Emma] I am fine. May I invite you to a cup of tea?

Please remove diacritical signs from the speaker names: Léa = Lea, Penélope = Penelope.

Need more effects? See our SSML guide with examples or the Amazon SSML tags for Amazon Polly.

Facts about the Gulf Arabic language:

Gulf Arabic (Khaleeji) is the variety of Arabic spoken along the coasts of the Persian Gulf, in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, eastern Saudi Arabia and parts of Oman and Iraq. It is spoken by several million people and is widely understood in the region thanks to Gulf television, music and social media.

Like all Arab countries, the Gulf states use Modern Standard Arabic for writing, news and official texts, while Gulf Arabic is the language of everyday conversation. The dialect keeps many features of the Arabic spoken in the Arabian Peninsula and has absorbed words from Persian, Hindi and Urdu, English and Turkish through centuries of trade and, more recently, the oil economy.

Some typical features are easy to notice. The letter qaf is often pronounced as a g, and kaf can become ch, so the word for you (feminine) sounds like inchi. Common words include shlonak for how are you, wayed for very or much and zain for good. Gulf Arabic is written, like all Arabic, from right to left in the Arabic script.

Because the Gulf is home to many international companies, airlines and visitors, Gulf Arabic is useful for business, tourism and customer communication in the region. Many people in the Gulf also speak English, but a few words in the local dialect are always appreciated.

A Gulf Arabic voice gives your text a natural regional sound and helps learners get used to the pronunciation and rhythm of the dialect spoken in Dubai, Doha, Kuwait City and Manama.

Supported voice languages: