Generate natural-sounding voiceovers for explainers, ads, training videos, and films. Sarvam offers 35+ voices across Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, and 7 more Indian languages. Paste your script, pick a voice, and download the audio.
Conversational ・ Friendly
News ・ Authoritative
Conversational ・ Consistent
Entertainment ・ Dynamic
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Script changes are part of the job. With a voice artist, every revision means re-booking the studio, re-recording the lines, and re-editing the audio. With Sarvam, you paste the new script and generate the voiceover again. A revision takes about 30 seconds.
Hiring a voice artist for every project is not always practical. Internal training videos, regional cuts, social edits, and prototype videos often go without narration simply because the budget does not stretch that far. Sarvam puts professional voiceovers within reach of every project, with a 5-minute voiceover costing under ₹15 on the API. The free tool costs nothing at all.
Hindi and English voice talent is easy to find, but Gujarati, Odia, Assamese, and Punjabi are harder to source. Sarvam offers voices in all 11 major Indian languages, ready to use whenever a project needs them. You can pick a language, choose a voice, and generate the audio in the same workflow.
Paste your script
You can drop in narration text in any of 11 Indian languages, including Hindi, Hinglish, Tamil, Telugu, and Bengali. The free tool supports up to 2,500 characters per generation, and the API supports unlimited generations for longer scripts.
Pick a voice
Sarvam offers 35+ voices across 11 Indian languages, with distinct tones suited to different kinds of content. Shubh works well for conversational explainers, Shreya for news-style narration, Manan for steady automated content, and Ishita for dynamic entertainment. Once you have selected a voice, you can adjust the pitch and pace to fine-tune the delivery for your project.
Generate, preview, adjust
After generating the audio, you can listen to the output and decide what to change. If the pace feels too quick for a tutorial, you can slow it down to 0.85x. If an ad needs more energy, you can push it up to 1.15x. Each generation takes only a few seconds, so iterating is quick.
Export and drop into your timeline
You can download the voiceover as WAV for editing, MP3 for delivery, or FLAC for lossless quality. The audio imports directly into Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, CapCut, or any other editing software you use.
from sarvamai import SarvamAI client = SarvamAI(api_subscription_key="YOUR_KEY") # Hindi voiceover audio = client.text_to_speech.convert( text="Bharat ki subah ka nazaara behad khubsurat hota hai. Chai ki chuskiyon ke saath pakshiyon ki awaaz, ye ehsaas bas yahin milta hai.", target_language_code="hi-IN", model="bulbul:v3", speaker="meera", pitch=0, pace=0.9, enable_preprocessing=True ) with open("voiceover.mp3", "wb") as f: f.write(audio.audios[0])
Real math for real projects. Compare Sarvam to hiring a voice artist.
~300 words, ~1,800 characters
₹5 via API / Free on tool
₹500 to 1,500 on Fiverr
30 seconds vs 1 to 3 days
~1,500 words, ~9,000 characters
₹27 via API
₹2,000 to 5,000
3 minutes vs 2 to 5 days
Hindi + Tamil + Telugu + Bengali + Marathi
₹135 via API (5× ₹27)
₹10,000 to 25,000 (5 separate artists)
15 minutes vs 1 to 2 weeks
Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, and 7 more languages. Warm, authoritative, professional, conversational styles.
WAV, MP3, FLAC, AAC, OPUS, PCM, MULAW, ALAW. Every format your NLE needs.
Broadcast-ready sample rate. Clean enough for client deliverables and OTT platforms.
Generate, listen, adjust, regenerate. Iterate faster than you can type feedback to a voice artist.
Starting at ₹30 per 10K characters. View pricing
Higher is better
ElevenLabs Flash V2.5
ElevenLabs V3 Alpha
Cartesia Sonic-3
Hindi is the most widely used voiceover language in India. Sarvam offers eight or more Hindi voices in warm, authoritative, professional, and conversational styles. Native Hinglish support handles English words inside Hindi sentences without breaking the flow, which makes it well-suited for corporate videos, YouTube, ads, and training content.
Tamil voiceover demand comes from film post-production in Chennai, the corporate sector across Tamil Nadu, and a fast-growing podcast and YouTube ecosystem. Sarvam handles Tamil with native prosody and natural Tanglish switching, which keeps English words and brand names sounding right inside Tamil sentences.
Telugu voiceover demand comes from the Telugu film industry, the creator economy in Hyderabad, and the city's large IT and corporate sector. Bulbul V3 reads Telugu with accurate pronunciation and natural expressiveness, which makes it well-suited for film post-production, training content, and long-form creator videos.
Most text-to-speech tools are built English-first, with Indian languages added later by fine-tuning an English model on limited Indian data. The result tends to show up clearly in the audio, where Hindi sounds translated, Tamil mispronounces common names, and code-switching breaks mid-sentence.
Bulbul V3 was built for Indian languages from the start, and every voice is trained on native Indian speech. The difference is audible in the first few seconds of any clip.
The practical question for any production team is whether the output is good enough for a client deliverable. In blind listening tests on Indian-language audio, Bulbul V3 outperforms leading global providers, and for most informational and corporate content, the output is hard to tell apart from human narration.
Sarvam offers the rest of the video localization stack alongside voiceover.
Natural, expressive voices across every major Indian language.
Generate your first voiceover in 30 seconds.
Generate your first voiceover in 30 seconds.
