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Pashto Text to Speech and AI Voice Generator
Pashto text to speech for Afghan and Pakistani scripts: type or paste your Pashto text and press Play to hear it aloud.
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Edit the text, pick a voice and press Play. Listen as often as you like before you sign up. Use a Pashto keyboard so letters like ښ, ږ and ګ go in as Pashto letters rather than Arabic or Persian look-alikes.
2 voices
Pashto text to speech voices, male and female
Listen2It has 2 Pashto voices, 1 male and 1 female. Press Use this voice to load one into the tool. Filter by gender.
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Pashto uses an Arabic-based alphabet with letters of its own, including ټ, ډ, ړ, ږ, ښ, ځ, څ, ڼ and ګ. Type with a Pashto layout, not an Arabic or Persian one, so that ګ goes in rather than the Persian گ, and ږ and ښ appear as real letters. Short vowels are rarely written, so preview names and any word a listener might misread.
Pashto has several forms of ye, and each carries a different sound: ي, ی, ې, ۍ and ئ. ې ends many plurals, as in ښځې (women), and ۍ ends many feminine nouns, as in ډوډۍ. The wrong form changes the vowel and sometimes the meaning, so check word endings carefully. A name that still sounds wrong can be given a fixed reading in the pronunciation dictionary.
Pashto has two main sound groups. Around Kandahar the letter ښ sounds like sh, and the language is called Pashto. In Peshawar and much of the east it sounds like kh, giving Pakhto. Write the standard spelling either way. Use تاسو, the polite you, in public messages. Afghanistan names its solar months after the zodiac, such as حمل for the first month, so match the calendar your listeners use.
What people make with Pashto voice over
Radio-style bulletins and public notices
Produce health, weather and community bulletins for listeners in Kabul, Kandahar, Jalalabad or Peshawar, and redo one item when the news changes.
Children's lessons and storybooks
Turn alphabet drills, reading practice and folk tales into audio for children learning to read Pashto at home or abroad.
Poetry and landay
Read a ghazal by Rahman Baba or a two-line landay for a social post, previewing each line so the rhythm holds.
Eid and wedding greetings
Voice a short greeting for Kochnai Akhtar or Loy Akhtar, or an invitation message for a wedding, then change a line for the next occasion.
Three steps
How to convert Pashto text to speech in three steps
Add your script
Type or paste Pashto 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 Pashto 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. Pashto 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 voices are listed under Afghanistan, so expect Afghan pronunciation. Listeners from Peshawar and the rest of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will understand them, but may notice that some sounds, such as ښ and ږ, differ from their own Pakhto. If your audience is mainly in Pakistan, preview a few lines that contain those letters before you commit to a long script.
Follow your audience. Afghan texts usually use the Persian-style digits ۱۲۳ and the solar calendar, while texts from Pakistan follow the Gregorian calendar and often use Western digits. Spelling also varies a little between the two, especially with the forms of ye. Pick one convention for each script, keep it throughout, and preview any number or date before you generate.
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