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September 2, 2026 · 8 min read

Choosing a Thai AI voice for the job, across all 26 voices

How to pick a Thai text to speech voice for ads, IVR, audiobooks, sleep, companions, games, regional campaigns, and English lines, from all 26 voices.

The right Thai AI voice is the one cast for the job the line has to do. Paxa TTS Flash ships 26 voices, and each carries a catalog role that says what it was cast for, from a news bulletin to a bedtime story.

This guide walks the roster job by job. Every voice links to its own page, where its published sample plays, and the whole roster plays at the end of this page. The voices index lists all 26 with their sample lines, and the API returns the same catalog from the voices endpoint.

How to choose, in order#

Decide in this order and most of the roster falls away before you play a single clip.

  • The job first. A promo, an IVR menu, an audiobook chapter, and a meditation script ask for different pacing, and the catalog roles were cast on pacing.
  • Then the register of your text. Thai carries politeness in its particles and pronouns. A line ending in ครับ or ค่ะ is polite in any voice, and a line ending in นะ is close in any voice. Fix the words before you pick the voice.
  • Then gender, when the surface has a fixed persona. The roster holds 14 female and 12 male voices, and every job below offers both.
  • Then language. 22 voices are Thai-first and read an English word inside a Thai sentence the way a Bangkok speaker does. The 4 English-first voices read a whole English line without a Thai accent, and read Thai with one.
  • Then accent. 4 voices carry a regional register for a campaign that speaks to one region.

Voices for ads and promos#

Nom Yen is the roster's female lead, cast for promos, social clips, and everyday product speech. It is the voice the landing page opens on, and the one to start with when a spot has to sound like the product itself.

Moo Ping brings a confident young energy to ads and shorts, the read a 15-second vertical clip wants. Massaman is the deep, steady leading-man voice for trailers and drama, cast for the spot that has to carry weight in one sentence.

A short spot has room for one voice. Cast it on the register the product already speaks in, then hear the same script in the two alternatives before the client meeting. The advertising use case walks a spot through the whole roster, and the creators page covers a channel's own voice.

Voices for IVR and announcements#

Thong Ek is the catalog's news anchor, a crisp, authoritative read for bulletins and corporate updates. An IVR menu is a corporate update read aloud, and a queue message written in polite Thai lands in this voice without sounding hurried.

Massaman is cast for announcements as well as trailers, and suits a public-address line in a station or a mall. Khanom Krok is the calm, unhurried male lead, the choice for a hold message that has to stay patient for the fourth repeat.

For an English support line, see the English-first voices below. The call centers use case and the announcements use case cover the surfaces themselves.

Voices for audiobooks and long reads#

Tako is a friendly young narrator cast for audiobooks, recaps, and explainers. Foi Thong is the clear narrator for long reads, and the pick when a chapter has to hold attention for forty minutes.

Khanom Krok reads documentary and heritage narration at an elder's pace. Panang is the theatrical voice with prestige-drama gravitas, cast for serious storytelling and the audio novel that wants a stage actor.

A long read is where pacing matters most. Play a whole paragraph in the playground before you decide, because a voice that sounds right on one sentence can tire over a chapter. The audiobooks use case and the publishers page price a full book.

Voices for sleep, meditation, and ASMR#

Lod Chong is the tranquil close-mic voice cast for sleep and meditation. For wind-downs and bedtime, Woon reads in a soft near-whisper. The male voice of the three is Sangkaya, quiet and close-mic, cast for ASMR and calm narration.

All three are written for a microphone a few centimeters from the mouth, and they read a slow script slowly. The meditation page plays them side by side and shows the speed setting a slower read uses.

Voices for companions and late-night reads#

Sanae Chan is the warm, magnetic voice with a late-night glow, and the voice the AI companion page opens on. For late-night reads, Tub Tim Krob brings a low, intimate delivery. The male option is Oliang, the relaxed low drawl of late-night radio.

A companion sounds close because its lines are written close, with the pronouns and particles Thai uses between friends. The voice carries that register; it does not invent it. The companions use case shows the four registers on one script.

Voices for characters and games#

Luk Chup is the light, high, youthful character voice for cartoons and playful spots. Bua Loi is the soft, youthful voice for characters and light stories. Panang returns here for the narrator or the antagonist who needs a stage voice.

A cast needs contrast more than it needs range. Two characters on the same voice blur, and two characters on a light voice and a deep one read as two people at once. The games and apps use case and the interactive fiction page cover casting a whole script.

Voices for regional campaigns#

Som Tam and Larb carry the Isan register, one female and one male. Khao Soi carries the soft Northern cadence, and Roti the quick Southern one.

Write the script in standard Thai. A regional voice reads standard text with its accent, and the accents page plays one Central Thai sentence in all four, with Khanom Krok as the control. A campaign that speaks to one region and a national campaign can share a script and differ only in the voice.

Voices for English lines#

Donut is the upbeat English voice for promos and demos. Cookie is the warm conversational English voice for support and onboarding. Toast reads tutorials in a natural everyday English, and Latte is the polished voice for brand films.

The split is by how much English the line holds. A product name or an English phrase inside a Thai sentence belongs to a Thai-first voice, which reads it the way the sentence's speaker would. A whole English paragraph belongs to an English-first voice. The English voices page plays all four on one line.

Voices for events and podcasts#

Pad Thai is the Thai-English code-switching MC for events and lifestyle content, cast for the script that changes language mid-sentence and has to sound like it meant to. Yoyo is a conversational podcast host with an easy live-mic feel. It is the real voice of one of the lab's co-founders, and the one entry in the roster that is a person.

What a voice cannot change#

Register and emotion come from the words. The model has no style control, and the same voice reads ขอบคุณครับ and ขอบใจนะ as differently as those two lines are. If a read sounds wrong, change the text before you change the voice: the particle at the end, the pronoun at the start, a space where a breath belongs.

Note

A Thai space is a phrase break, and the voice pauses on it. A comma does the same job for a shorter beat. Neither changes the charge.

The script guide covers numbers, abbreviations, and English words in a Thai line, all of which read differently from how they look.

One voice per surface#

Hold one voice per brand surface. A product that greets in one voice, reads notifications in another, and narrates its tutorial in a third sounds like three products. Add a second voice for a second character, or for a second language, and for nothing else.

Keep the voice's slug in configuration next to the brand color. A slug is a stable public identifier, and a voice keeps its slug for as long as it serves.

Voice by job, on one table#

JobVoicesGenderLanguage or accent
Ads and promosNom Yen, Moo Ping, MassamanFemale, Male, MaleThai
IVR and announcementsThong Ek, Massaman, Khanom KrokMale, Male, MaleThai
Audiobooks and long readsTako, Foi Thong, Khanom Krok, PanangFemale, Female, Male, MaleThai
Sleep, meditation, and ASMRLod Chong, Woon, SangkayaFemale, Female, MaleThai
Companions and late-night readsSanae Chan, Tub Tim Krob, OliangFemale, Female, MaleThai
Characters and gamesLuk Chup, Bua Loi, PanangFemale, Female, MaleThai
Regional campaignsSom Tam, Larb, Khao Soi, RotiFemale, Male, Female, MaleIsan, Isan, Northern, Southern
English linesDonut, Cookie, Toast, LatteFemale, Female, Male, MaleEnglish
Events and podcastsPad Thai, YoyoFemale, MaleThai and English

Every voice, with its published sample line. Press play on a row to hear it. The roster is the same one the voices endpoint returns.

Voices served by the API
VoiceidGenderLanguageSample
Khanom KrokCalm, unhurried elder voice and the roster's male lead: documentary, heritage storytelling, and narration.khanomkrokMaleThai
Nom YenBright, energetic voice and the roster's female lead: promos, social clips, and everyday product speech.nomyenFemaleThai
TakoFriendly young narrator for audiobooks, recaps, and explainers.takoFemaleThai
Foi ThongClear, captivating narrator for long reads and explainers.foithongFemaleThai
MassamanDeep, steady leading-man voice for trailers, drama, and announcements.massamanMaleThai
Thong EkCrisp, authoritative read for news bulletins and corporate updates.thongekMaleThai
PanangPolished, theatrical delivery with prestige-drama gravitas.panangMaleThai
OliangRelaxed low drawl for chill content and late-night radio.oliangMaleThai
Sanae ChanWarm, magnetic voice with a late-night glow.sanaechanFemaleThai
Tub Tim KrobLow, intimate delivery for late-night reads.tubtimkrobFemaleThai
Moo PingConfident young voice with street energy for ads and shorts.moopingMaleThai
Bua LoiSoft, youthful voice for characters and light stories.bualoiFemaleThai
Luk ChupLight, high, youthful voice for characters and playful spots.lukchupFemaleThai
Lod ChongTranquil close-mic delivery for sleep and meditation.lodchongFemaleThai
WoonSoft near-whisper for wind-downs and bedtime.woonFemaleThai
SangkayaQuiet close-mic voice for ASMR and calm narration.sangkayaMaleThai
Pad ThaiThai-English code-switching MC for events and lifestyle content.padthaiFemaleThai
Som TamIsan-accented voice with local warmth.somtamFemaleIsan Thai
LarbIsan-accented male voice for regional content.larbMaleIsan Thai
Khao SoiNorthern-accented voice with a soft Lanna cadence.khaosoiFemaleNorthern Thai
RotiSouthern-accented voice with a quick coastal cadence.rotiMaleSouthern Thai
DonutUpbeat English voice for promos and demos.donutFemaleEnglish
CookieWarm conversational English voice for support and onboarding.cookieFemaleEnglish
ToastNatural everyday English voice for tutorials.toastMaleEnglish
LattePolished English voice for brand films.latteMaleEnglish

Special

YoyoyoyoMale · ThaiOne of Paxa Labs' co-founders: a conversational podcast host with an easy live-mic feel.

Before you decide#

  • Name the job before you name the voice, and start from the two or three voices cast for it.
  • Write the line in the register you want, particles included, and only then compare voices on it.
  • Type your own sentence into the box on the text to speech page. It speaks 6 of the voices with no account.
  • Open the full roster of 26 in the playground for a longer script, a whole paragraph, and audio you can download.
  • Hold one voice per surface, and write its slug into configuration once.