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Hindi and Indian-language text to speech that reads Devanagari properly
Twenty-three Indian languages, priced in a way an Indian buyer can actually justify.
Last checked 2026-08-14
In short
Naadly reads 23 Indian languages - Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Odia, Assamese, Urdu and more - through a dedicated Indic engine that infers the language from the script you paste. Indic minutes are metered separately on every paid plan because the model is twenty times heavier than the English one, and prices are shown in rupees beside the dollar figure.
The languages
Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Indian English, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu - 23 in all. You do not pick the language from a menu: paste the text and the engine reads the script it is given.
Indian English is separate from British and American English on purpose. An Indian audience hears the difference immediately, and so does a client.
Why Indic speech is metered separately
Honesty about the machinery: the Indic model renders at roughly 1.25x realtime on a container three sizes larger than the one that runs English at 21x. A minute of Tamil costs us something like fifteen minutes of English. So Indic minutes are counted on every plan and never sold uncapped, while standard English, German and French speech is uncapped on $39 a month. That is the deal being stated plainly rather than discovered at the end of a month.
Code-mixing, the thing everyone actually needs
Real Indian scripts are not monolingual. "Aapka order dispatch ho gaya hai" is one sentence in two languages, and it is most of the commercial work. Devanagari with English brand names inside it reads well; Roman-script Hindi ("aapka order") does not - it will be read as English. Type the Hindi in Devanagari and leave the brand names in Latin, which is how the sentence is written anyway.
Names are the other trap. Put every product, place and person's name into the pronunciation dictionary once, in the spelling that sounds right, and every future render inherits it.
Translate first, then speak
If your source is English, Naadly will translate into any of 35 languages and read the translation back in one pass, so a single English script becomes a Hindi, Tamil and Bengali voice-over without a round trip through a translation site. Have a native speaker read the translation before it ships - machine translation of marketing copy is reliably grammatical and occasionally absurd.
What is still weak
- There are few labelled Hindi voices in the standard catalogue; the Indic tier, not the standard one, is where the Indian-language work happens.
- Long Indic renders are slow by nature - queue them as a job rather than waiting on the page.
- Sanskrit and the smaller scheduled languages are supported but less tested than Hindi, Tamil and Bengali. Preview before you promise a client.
Questions
- Is there a free Hindi text to speech?
- The free plan does not include the Indic engine, because a minute of Indic speech is real machine time. Paid plans include Indic minutes from $15 a month, shown in rupees too.
- Which Indian languages does Naadly support?
- 23: Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Indian English, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
- Can it read Hinglish?
- Write the Hindi in Devanagari and keep English words in Latin script; that mixture reads well. Fully Roman-script Hindi will be read as English.
- Can I dub an English video into Hindi?
- Yes - transcribe, translate and re-voice in one job, with an SRT out the other side. Read the translation before you publish.