Text to speech for WhatsApp: send voice messages and status in Hindi without recording
By the TTS Maker team6 min read
हिन्दी में पढ़ेंA voice message gets listened to where a long text gets scrolled past. That matters if you run a shop, a tuition class or a housing society group and need people to actually take in what you sent. But recording is awkward: there is background noise, you stumble, you record it five times. Typing the message and letting a clear Hindi voice say it takes a minute, and the result sounds the same every time.
What you can and cannot do
It helps to know the limits before you start, because WhatsApp treats audio in two different ways.
- In a chat or group: you can send the MP3 as an audio file. The other person taps play, exactly as with a voice note. It shows up as an audio file, not as a note recorded with the microphone, so it does not carry the microphone icon.
- On your status: at the time of writing, WhatsApp lets you record a voice status with the microphone but not upload an audio file as one. To use a generated voice on your status, you turn it into a short video. That takes two extra minutes and is covered below.
Make the voice message
- Open the Hindi text to speech page on your phone.
- Type or paste your message. Keep it short: three or four sentences is plenty for a voice message.
- Pick a voice. Madhur is the male Hindi voice and Swara the female one; both are free.
- Press Convert to speech, listen, and fix anything that sounds off.
- Download the MP3.
You do not need an account for this. Without logging in you can convert 500 characters at a time, which is about half a minute of speech, and 2,000 characters a day.
नमस्कार! शर्मा किराना स्टोर की ओर से आपको और आपके पूरे परिवार को दीपावली की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएँ। इस दिवाली, हमारी दुकान पर मिठाइयों और ड्राई फ्रूट के गिफ़्ट पैक पर दस प्रतिशत की छूट है। ऑफ़र रविवार तक है। आइए, और अपनों के लिए ख़ुशियाँ ले जाइए। धन्यवाद!
Try it here
Change the shop name and the offer to your own, then convert and download.
Send it in a chat or group
The exact menu names differ a little between phones, but the route is the same:
- Android: open the chat, tap the attach icon, choose Audio, and pick the MP3 you downloaded.
- iPhone: open the chat, tap the plus icon, choose Document, and pick the MP3 from Files.
- From your file manager: find the MP3 in Downloads, tap Share, and choose WhatsApp. This works on both.
Put it on your WhatsApp status
- Make the audio as above and download the MP3.
- Open a video editor such as InShot or VN. Add one photo or a poster: your shop front, the product, a festival design.
- Add the MP3 as the audio track and set the photo to last as long as the audio.
- Export the video and post it as your status.
Keep it to 30 seconds or less. WhatsApp has raised its limit on status videos over time, so your app may allow more, but a clip of that length fits on any version and is about as long as people will listen to on a status anyway.
Scripts you can adapt
Three more messages, written the way a voice reads best: short sentences, numbers and times as words, the important detail said plainly.
सभी अभिभावकों को नमस्ते। कल, यानी शनिवार को, गणित की कक्षा सुबह दस बजे की जगह ग्यारह बजे होगी। कृपया बच्चों को समय पर भेजें। धन्यवाद।
सभी निवासियों के लिए सूचना। कल सुबह दस से बारह बजे तक, टंकी की सफ़ाई के कारण पानी की सप्लाई बंद रहेगी। कृपया ज़रूरत का पानी पहले से भर लें।
Notice what these scripts leave out. There is no long greeting, no “I hope this message finds you well”, and each one says the time or date once, clearly. If someone hears only the first ten seconds, they still get the point.
Writing a message that sounds right
- Type Hindi in Devanagari. “कल दुकान बंद रहेगी” is read correctly; “kal dukaan band rahegi” usually is not.
- Write numbers as words. “दस प्रतिशत”, “ग्यारह बजे”, “पाँच सौ रुपये”. Digits and symbols can be read in ways you did not intend.
- Say who is speaking first. In a group, people need to know whose message it is before they care what it says.
- One message, one purpose. An offer and a holiday notice in the same audio means people remember neither.
- Listen once on the phone speaker before sending. That is how most people will hear it.
Use it well
A voice message feels more personal than a text, which is exactly why it is easy to overdo.
- Send to people who expect to hear from you: customers who gave you their number, parents of your students, members of your group. WhatsApp broadcast lists only reach contacts who have saved your number, which is a sensible limit.
- Do not send the same audio every day. A weekly offer gets listened to. A daily one gets the chat muted.
- Do not pass the voice off as a real person. If a customer asks, say it is a computer voice. And never use a voice to imitate someone specific.
For longer audio, such as a product explainer or a lesson, the YouTube voiceover guide goes deeper into writing for a voice. For a Reel or a Short with the same voice, see the short video guide.