Panangพะแนง

Cast it for#

Prestige drama

Period pieces, literary adaptation, and anything read with the house lights down.

Ceremony and awards

Scripts read aloud to a room, where formality is the register the occasion asks for.

Literary narration

Poetry and classical Thai prose, where phrasing carries as much as meaning.

Reach for instead

• Massaman Cinema weight and a lower centre, where this one brings articulation.
• Khanom Krok Documentary calm, where formality would sit oddly on the subject.

In production#

• Publishers

  Literary and period features.

• Audiobooks

  Classical Thai prose and drama.

• Creators

  Ceremony scripts and title reads.

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": "ค่ำคืนนี้ เรื่องราวทั้งหมดจะค่อย ๆ เผยออกมา ทีละฉาก ทีละบรรทัด",
    "voice": "panang",
    "model": "paxa-tts-flash-v1"
  }' \
  --output panang.mp3

import { writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";

const response = await fetch("https://api.paxalabs.com/v1/tts", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.PAXA_API_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    text: "ค่ำคืนนี้ เรื่องราวทั้งหมดจะค่อย ๆ เผยออกมา ทีละฉาก ทีละบรรทัด",
    voice: "panang",
    model: "paxa-tts-flash-v1",
  }),
});

if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`TTS failed: ${response.status}`);
await writeFile("panang.mp3", Buffer.from(await response.arrayBuffer()));

import os
import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.paxalabs.com/v1/tts",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['PAXA_API_KEY']}"},
    json={"text": "ค่ำคืนนี้ เรื่องราวทั้งหมดจะค่อย ๆ เผยออกมา ทีละฉาก ทีละบรรทัด", "voice": "panang", "model": "paxa-tts-flash-v1"},
)
response.raise_for_status()

with open("panang.mp3", "wb") as f:
    f.write(response.content)

API voice reference

Related voices#

Questions#

What does theatrical mean for this voice?

It means articulation and deliberate phrasing, in the register of a stage actor addressing a room. The voice does not act out characters; the formality is in the delivery.

How is it different from Massaman?

Massaman drops lower and moves slower, which is the cinema register. Panang stays higher and articulates harder, which is the stage one.

Does it work for audiobooks?

For classical prose and period fiction, the register fits the material. Contemporary novels usually want Tako or Foi Thong, where the formality would otherwise sit between the listener and the story.