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Sinhala Text to Speech and AI Voice Generator
Type or paste your script in Sinhala letters, press Play, and Sinhala text to speech reads it back in the voice you choose.
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Edit the text, pick a voice and press Play. Listen as often as you like before you sign up. Paste Unicode Sinhala, and check that joined letters such as ශ්රී have not split into separate pieces on the way.
2 voices
Sinhala text to speech voices, male and female
Listen2It has 2 Sinhala voices, 1 male and 1 female. Press Use this voice to load one into the tool. Filter by gender.
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Sinhala has its own script, and many office files still use legacy fonts such as FM Abhaya that only look like Sinhala on screen. Text copied from them pastes as stray Latin letters, so convert it to Unicode first. Then look at the joined forms. The rakaransaya in ප්රදේශය and the yansaya in ව්යාපාරය rely on a hidden joiner character that some editors drop.
Decide which Sinhala you are writing. The written language, with forms such as මම යමි, suits formal notices and reports, while everyday speech says මම යනවා. Most voice overs sound better in a tidy spoken style, close to how a radio presenter talks between songs. Address a general audience as ඔබ, and avoid switching between the written and spoken styles inside one sentence.
Everyday Sinhala uses the same digits as English, and large sums are counted in ලක්ෂ (lakhs) and කෝටි (crores). If you want an amount said in lakhs, write it out in words. English words such as phone, loan and online are common in Sinhala speech. You can write them in Sinhala letters, as in ෆෝන්, or leave them in English, so preview both. Fix a name that keeps coming out wrong in the pronunciation dictionary.
What people make with Sinhala voice over
Avurudu and Vesak campaigns
Shops and banks run Sinhala and Tamil New Year offers each April and Vesak messages in May, reusing one script across social clips and in-store speakers.
Tuition class content
Tutors who teach O/L and A/L subjects narrate short revision videos in Sinhala, so students can replay a lesson on the bus home.
News and explainer channels
YouTube channels read out daily news summaries and explainers on exams, fuel and weather in clear spoken Sinhala.
Heritage and travel guides
Guides and hotels in Kandy, Sigiriya and Galle record short Sinhala tracks for local families and school trips.
Three steps
How to convert Sinhala text to speech in three steps
Add your script
Type or paste Sinhala 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 Sinhala 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. Sinhala 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.
It is better not to. Romanised Sinhala, often called Singlish in Sri Lanka, has no fixed spelling, so a Sinhala voice cannot read it reliably. Type in Sinhala script with a phonetic keyboard app, which turns Roman input into Sinhala letters as you type, or use the Wijesekara layout. Then paste the Unicode text into the box and press Play.
No. Sinhala and Tamil come from different language families and use different scripts, even though Sri Lankans share many borrowed words. Write a separate Tamil version and try the Sri Lankan Tamil page for it. Keep place names in each language's own form, such as මහනුවර in Sinhala and கண்டி in Tamil, both meaning Kandy.
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