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Khao Niaoข้าวเหนียว

Low and steady, with nowhere to hurry to.

Male · Thai · Calm guide · 0:05khaoniao

0:05

หายใจเข้าช้า ๆ แล้วปล่อยออกไปครับ ไม่ต้องรีบ ทุกอย่างรอได้ ตอนนี้แค่อยู่ตรงนี้ก็พอแล้วครับ

The clip is a breathing cue. Listen to the pause after ปล่อยออกไปครับ, held long enough for the listener to actually exhale.

Khao Niao sits at the bottom of the Thai roster and stays there. The pace is even, the level never rises, and a pause is held for as long as the sentence needs it.

It reads instructions the way a guide gives them, one at a time, with room after each. That makes it the voice for material a listener follows with their eyes closed.

Cast it for#

Guided breathing and body scans
Cues read one at a time, with the silence between them left intact.
Wellbeing narration
Mental health and wellbeing apps that need a voice with no urgency in it.
Slow documentary
Nature, heritage, and craft narration read at walking pace.

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In production#

Call it from the API#

The voice field takes the id above. Every other value in this request is a Paxa TTS Flash default.

curl -X POST https://api.paxalabs.com/v1/tts \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PAXA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "text": "หายใจเข้าช้า ๆ แล้วปล่อยออกไปครับ ไม่ต้องรีบ ทุกอย่างรอได้ ตอนนี้แค่อยู่ตรงนี้ก็พอแล้วครับ",
    "voice": "khaoniao",
    "model": "paxa-tts-flash-v1"
  }' \
  --output khaoniao.mp3
Model
Paxa TTS Flash
Per request
5,000 characters
Rate
15 credits per 1,000 characters
Free credits
100 credits, about 11 minutes

API voice reference

Questions#

Is it a meditation voice?
It is the male guide for breathing and body-scan material. Lod Chong, Woon, and Sangkaya are the calm female voices, and the meditation page casts them for sleep.
How is it different from Khanom Krok?
Khanom Krok is unhurried but present, a narrator telling a story. Khao Niao is lower and quieter, a guide giving instructions, and it keeps a longer pause between sentences.
Can it read at a faster pace?
The speed option raises the rate of any voice, but the register stays calm. Material that needs energy wants Nom Yen or Tom Yum.

Hear it read your own words.

New accounts start with 100 free credits. Open the playground and this voice is already selected.