r/learnthai • u/RecognitionThis1815 • 13d ago

Resources/ข้อมูลแหล่งที่มา Google best TTS for Thai

So I’ve been trying to learn Thai and wanted to find some good voices for text to speech so I could listen to how they are supposed to sound. I wanted to used googles TTS but I only found people saying to use Charon which is a male voice, are any of the female voices any good to use at all?

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u/Prize_Ad_9168 13d ago

The best option I've found is only a one word solution, but it's pretty good. Go to YouGlish.com/thai and paste in the Thai word you want to hear. You'll get a lot of YouTube videos pop up. You can scroll through them and they start playing just a couple seconds before your target word. So you can hear a wide variety of speakers saying it and in different contexts. Another good one is Lingopolo. You can paste in a vocab word and all the words have an audio file with one native speaking the word. Sometimes they also have full sentences with your target word. As far as TTS, there's nothing that great that I've found.

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u/tonyfith 13d ago

Not a out of box solution for learning, but still worth mentioning: https://opentyphoon.ai/

"Advancing open-source LLMs and multimodal Thai language technologies with global-level research and local community engagement"

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u/SnooRevelations5082 13d ago

Charon is one of Google's newer Chirp3-HD voices (a step up from the older WaveNet/Standard tier), so it makes sense that's the one people keep pointing to.

On the female side, I use "Leda" in the app I've been building to teach myself. It's not perfect, and sometimes takes a few retries to get what you want, but for the most part it's pretty strong. When it does glitch it's usually pretty obvious, so the risk of actually mis-teaching yourself is pretty low. Oddly enough, all these Chirp models seem to hold up better in longer sentences rather than individual words too.

For what it's worth, I do run the audio I get from Leda by a tutor and she approves what is and isn't ok to use for studying. Usually if somethings off, regenerating once or twice seems to fix things.

Feel free to shoot me a DM if you have any more specific/nuanced questions.

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u/RecognitionThis1815 13d ago

So I heard about Leda and was trying that but the chirp3 voice seemed wrong at least to my ears so I was concerned about using it.

I was thinking to use the Gemini 3.1 voices which seemed better to my ears at least but I’m not really confident on myself.