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Bengali Text to Speech and AI Voice Generator
Bengali text to speech for listeners in Kolkata and West Bengal: type or paste your script in Bengali letters and press Play to hear it.
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Edit the text, pick a voice and press Play. Listen as often as you like before you sign up. Type in Unicode Bengali and check that each conjunct, such as ক্ষ or ন্ত, is joined by the hasanta (্) before you press Play.
10 voices
Bengali text to speech voices, male and female
Listen2It has 10 Bengali voices, 5 male and 5 female. Press Use this voice to load one into the tool. Filter by gender.
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Meenakshi
Animesh
Indrani
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Choose Bengali from India when your listeners live in West Bengal or Tripura. The script and grammar match Bangladeshi Bangla, but the accent and many everyday words differ. A Kolkata script says জল for water, স্নান for a bath and নেমন্তন্ন for an invitation, and it opens with নমস্কার. Festival lines follow Kolkata habits too: শুভ নববর্ষ on Poila Baishakh and শুভ বিজয়া after Durga Puja.
Bengali reads the hidden vowel after a consonant as a short o, and often drops it at the end of a word, so কলম sounds like kolom. The spelling does not show which, so preview new words. Long surnames are worth a listen as well. বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় and চট্টোপাধ্যায় are often shortened to Banerjee and Chatterjee in English, so pick one form for the script and keep it.
Kolkata speech takes in English freely: ক্লাস, টিফিন, অফিস and ফ্ল্যাট are ordinary Bengali now. Write such words in Bengali letters, and keep brand names in Latin letters. Many West Bengal publishers follow the newer spelling with ি, as in সরকারি and দেশি, while older books print সরকারী. Pick one style. If a name or brand is misread, add it to the pronunciation dictionary once.
What people make with Bengali voice over
Durga Puja campaigns
Sweet shops, sari stores and housing societies voice a Puja greeting or a pandal welcome, then reuse the project for Kali Puja and Poila Baishakh.
Audio stories
Bengali detective and ghost stories have a loyal audience on radio and YouTube. Creators narrate a series with one steady voice from the first episode to the last.
Madhyamik and Higher Secondary lessons
Teachers and coaching centres turn West Bengal board chapters into spoken Bengali for students revising before exams.
Heritage walks and tours
Guides and travel pages voice stops in north Kolkata, Shantiniketan and the Sundarbans for Bengali-speaking visitors.
Three steps
How to convert Bengali text to speech in three steps
Add your script
Type or paste Bengali 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 Bengali 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. Bengali has 5 male and 5 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 grammar are the same, and speakers on both sides understand each other with ease. The differences are in accent and in everyday words. Kolkata says জল and স্নান where Dhaka says পানি and গোসল, and greets with নমস্কার more often. Pick these voices for listeners in India, and the Bangla page for listeners in Bangladesh.
Yes, and most Kolkata ads do. Words that have settled into Bengali, such as অফিস or মোবাইল, read best in Bengali letters. Product names and slogans can stay in Latin letters, so the brand stays exact. Preview each line where the two scripts meet, and if a word still sounds wrong, add it to the pronunciation dictionary[[C067]].
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