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Cast it for#

Fiction audiobooks

Novels and short fiction, where a narrator holds a listener for hours without adopting a persona.

Explainers and recaps

Channel narration that has to sound like a person and still cover ground quickly.

Guided walkthroughs

Product tours and how-to material where a formal read would feel oversized.

Reach for instead

• Khanom Krok Documentary and heritage material wants an older register that carries the weight for you.
• Foi Thong The same long-read stamina in a female register.

In production#

• Audiobooks

  Fiction and narrative non-fiction.

• E-learning

  Lesson narration that stays approachable.

• Creators

  Channel voiceover and video essays.

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": "ยามเช้าในกรุงเทพฯ แสงแดดอ่อน ๆ ทาบลงบนถนนที่เริ่มคึกคัก",
    "voice": "tako",
    "model": "paxa-tts-flash-v1"
  }' \
  --output tako.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: "ยามเช้าในกรุงเทพฯ แสงแดดอ่อน ๆ ทาบลงบนถนนที่เริ่มคึกคัก",
    voice: "tako",
    model: "paxa-tts-flash-v1",
  }),
});

if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`TTS failed: ${response.status}`);
await writeFile("tako.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": "ยามเช้าในกรุงเทพฯ แสงแดดอ่อน ๆ ทาบลงบนถนนที่เริ่มคึกคัก", "voice": "tako", "model": "paxa-tts-flash-v1"},
)
response.raise_for_status()

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

API voice reference

Related voices#

Questions#

Does it work for fiction?

Yes. The register keeps a narrator's distance while still sounding like a person, which is the balance long fiction asks for.

How long can one request be?

A single request takes up to 5,000 characters. A book is sent chapter by chapter, or streamed through the live socket while the text is still arriving.

How young does it read?

It reads as a narrator in their twenties or thirties. Luk Chup and Bua Loi sit higher and lighter when the part calls for an actual character voice.