Arabic · 22 varieties in our catalogue
Arabic text to speech, from Fusha to the dialects
Hear real Fusha clips made by sōtem V1. Fusha voices are available; dialect voices follow as native speakers are recorded, and Gulf voices come from sōtem Khaleeji, our own model, trained on recordings from paid, consenting native speakers.
Press play to hear it · Fusha · Man
Arabic · Fusha
مَرْحَبًا بِكُمْ فِي الْخِدْمَةِ الْمَصْرِفِيَّةِ الْهَاتِفِيَّةِ. أَنَا سُوتِم، مُسَاعِدُكُمُ الرَّقْمِيُّ. يُمْكِنُنِي مُسَاعَدَتُكُمْ فِي الِاسْتِعْلَامِ عَنِ الرَّصِيدِ، وَتَحْوِيلِ الْأَمْوَالِ، وَإِيقَافِ الْبِطَاقَةِ فَوْرًا عِنْدَ فِقْدَانِهَا.
How this clip was made
Nobody read this script aloud. The speech was generated by sōtem V1 on our own hardware, using a short reference recording from an openly licensed dataset.
Example voice made with a reference recording from the open ClArTTS dataset (CC BY 4.0).
- Model
- silma-tts by silma-aiLicence Apache-2.0 · revision 226dd7a
- Reference voice
- MBZUAI/ClArTTS (LibriVox public-domain recording), dataset revision 2f6e820abba8b5168b346c43479a324d8d37e35a, item ch_02_arabic_tts_dataset_192.wavLicence CC BY 4.0 · Attribution Kulkarni et al., ClArTTS, Interspeech 2023
- Made
- Generated on our own hardware (CPU) on 4 October 2026.
- Independent check
An open speech-recognition model (Whisper large-v3-turbo, MIT licence, run locally) listened to the clip and heard:
مرحبا بكم في الخدمة المصرفية الهاتفية أنا سوت مساعدكم الرقمي يمكنني مساعدتكم في الاستعلام عن الرصيد وتحويل الأموال وإيقاف البطاقة فورا عند فقدانها
23 of 23 words matched · word error rate 4.3%
Custom text is available to pilot partners.
New voices, a man and a woman for each dialect from paid native speakers, come through sōtem Data Lab. Gulf voices: In training.
- 0:13
Fusha · Man
Banking · مَرْحَبًا بِكُمْ فِي الْخِدْمَةِ الْمَصْرِفِيَّةِ الْهَاتِفِيَّةِ.…
- 0:12
Fusha · Man
Government service · نُفِيدُكُمْ بِأَنَّهُ تَمَّ اسْتِلَامُ طَلَبِ تَجْدِيدِ…
Example voice made with a reference recording from the open ClArTTS dataset (CC BY 4.0).
Dialects
Every Arabic variety, with its honest status
Voices need a model trained for that dialect and licensed for commercial use. Where none exists, we say so and record our own.
Gulf (Khaleeji)
- Saudi Arabic · NajdiText to speech: In trainingSpeech to text: Available
- Saudi Arabic · HijaziText to speech: In trainingSpeech to text: Available
- Saudi Arabic · Eastern ProvinceText to speech: In trainingSpeech to text: Available
- Saudi Arabic · SouthernText to speech: In trainingSpeech to text: Available
- Emirati ArabicText to speech: In trainingSpeech to text: Available
- Kuwaiti ArabicText to speech: In trainingSpeech to text: Available
- Qatari ArabicText to speech: In trainingSpeech to text: Available
- Bahraini ArabicText to speech: In trainingSpeech to text: Available
- Omani ArabicText to speech: In trainingSpeech to text: Available
Iraq
- Iraqi ArabicText to speech: In developmentSpeech to text: Available (general Arabic)
Levant
- Jordanian ArabicText to speech: In developmentSpeech to text: Available
- Palestinian ArabicText to speech: In developmentSpeech to text: Available
- Syrian ArabicText to speech: In developmentSpeech to text: Available
- Lebanese ArabicText to speech: In developmentSpeech to text: Available
Egypt & Sudan
- Egyptian ArabicText to speech: In developmentSpeech to text: Available
- Sudanese ArabicText to speech: In developmentSpeech to text: Available (general Arabic)
Maghreb
- Moroccan Arabic (Darija)Text to speech: In developmentSpeech to text: Available
- Algerian ArabicText to speech: In developmentSpeech to text: Available
- Tunisian ArabicText to speech: In developmentSpeech to text: Available
- Libyan ArabicText to speech: In developmentSpeech to text: Available
Yemen
- Yemeni ArabicText to speech: In developmentSpeech to text: Available (general Arabic)
Modern Standard
- Modern Standard ArabicText to speech: AvailableSpeech to text: Available
How a pilot works
Three steps to Arabic voices on your line
- 01
Tell us about your service
Who calls you, in which dialects, and what they need. We agree the pilot scope and pilot pricing for your organisation.
- 02
We set it up for you
The engine runs with the Arabic voices and transcription your callers need, with no third-party AI.
- 03
Go live with real callers
Start with a small group, listen to every clip and read every transcript. Every clip the engine makes carries a watermark.
Use cases
Where Arabic voices do the most good
- 01
Banks
Card, account and fraud lines that speak the customer's dialect, with every call transcribed for compliance and never sent to an outside AI provider.
- 02
Government
Citizens get answers about services, documents and deadlines by phone, day and night, and a person when the case needs one.
- 03
Contact centres
Transcripts and summaries for every call in Arabic and English, so agents stop typing notes and supervisors can search every call.
- 04
Media
Narration, promos and dubbing in natural regional Arabic, with a watermark that proves which clips are synthetic.
- 05
Education
Lessons and audiobooks read in clear Fusha or in the dialect students hear at home.
- 06
E-commerce
Order updates, delivery calls and product questions answered by voice, in the shopper's own dialect.
Questions
Arabic, answered
Fusha or dialect?
Fusha today: sōtem V1 reads Modern Standard Arabic in natural voices. Dialect voices follow as native speakers are recorded, and Gulf voices come from sōtem Khaleeji, our own model, trained on recordings we pay native speakers for.
Do I need to add tashkeel (diacritics)?
No. sōtem V1 reads Arabic with or without tashkeel. Adding it helps with names and words that can be read more than one way.
When will Gulf voices be available?
Gulf voices come from sōtem Khaleeji, our own model, in training on consented recordings from native speakers. No open Gulf voice model is cleared for commercial use, so we build our own.
Can one voice switch between Arabic and English?
sōtem V1 speaks both Fusha and English in the same voice. We test your own mixed scripts in the pilot before you rely on them.
How is it priced?
Pilot pricing per organisation, agreed before the pilot starts.
Where does it run?
In Europe, with your data stored in the EU (Frankfurt). No third-party AI API is called, and voices and text are never sent to an outside AI provider.
More answers on the sōtem Voice page.
Arabic voices for your callers
Tell us which dialects your callers speak and we'll set up a pilot for you.
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