Text to speech
Arabic voice-over for PowerPoint presentations, one slide at a time
Write what you would say over each slide and get an Arabic audio file for every one, ready to insert into your deck. For anyone preparing a pitch deck that goes out by email, a recorded quarterly report, a university presentation or a recorded webinar, who would prefer not to record themselves ten times over.
- Modern Standard Arabic + 18 dialects
- 100 library voices
- Live demo, no sign-up
Free plan: 500͏ credits a month, MP3, personal use. Commercial rights from Starter.
See the workflowThe demo reads up to 200 characters with no sign-up. Paste one of the scripts below to hear it.
Hear it yourself
Ready slide scripts
These are examples of what is said over a slide, not what is written on it. Change the numbers and names, and try the first script in the demo at the top of the page.
Problem slide in a pitch deck
Modern Standard Arabicفي السنة الماضية خدمنا ثلاثمئة متجر صغير في الرياض وجدة. المشكلة التي نحلّها بسيطة: صاحب المتجر يقضي ساعتين يوميًا في متابعة الطلبات يدويًا، ونحن نختصرها إلى عشر دقائق.
What it says: Last year we served three hundred small shops in Riyadh and Jeddah. The problem we solve is simple: a shop owner spends two hours a day tracking orders by hand, and we cut that to ten minutes.
Webinar opening
Saudi Arabicحيّاكم الله في ورشة اليوم. قبل ما نبدأ، اكتبوا أسئلتكم في المحادثة وبنجاوب عليها في آخر ربع ساعة. موضوعنا مرة مهم لكل واحد عنده مشروع صغير ويبغى يرتّب حساباته من الحين.
What it says: Welcome to today's workshop. Before we begin, put your questions in the chat and we will answer them in the last quarter of an hour. Today's topic really matters to anyone with a small business who wants to get their accounts in order starting now.
Results slide in a university presentation
Modern Standard Arabicننتقل الآن إلى نتائج الدراسة. يوضّح الشكل أمامكم أن الطلاب الذين استخدموا التطبيق ثلاث مرات أسبوعيًا تحسّنت درجاتهم مقارنة بالمجموعة الضابطة، وسنناقش في الشريحة التالية حدود هذه النتيجة.
What it says: We now move to the results of the study. The figure in front of you shows that students who used the app three times a week improved their grades compared with the control group, and on the next slide we discuss the limits of this finding.
Every recording is real Vocla output in a public library voice, published unedited.
The problem
The deck is ready. The recording is what holds it up
You press record inside the presentation software, stumble on slide seven and start again.
Then the phone rings on slide eleven. An hour later you notice that your voice is louder at the start of the deck than at the end, and that the room echo is in every sentence.
A deck sent without audio loses half its meaning. The investor who opens your file alone never hears you explain the numbers, and the committee member reviewing a graduation project later sees headings with no context. Slides are written to be explained, not read.
Then the edits arrive: a figure on the revenue slide changes an hour before sending, or a supervisor asks you to cut a paragraph. With one long recording you would redo everything. With a file per slide you change one file.
Why Vocla
Why Vocla fits slide narration
A separate file for every slide
Generate each slide's script on its own and download its file. The audio stays attached to its slide when you reorder the deck, and you can change one slide without touching the others.
A length you can predict
A thousand characters gives about a minute, so you know how long the presentation runs from the length of the script before you generate. If you have a time limit, say ten minutes for a graduation presentation, trim the script or raise the speed slightly until you hit it.
Numbers and names said your way
Your startup's name, your supervisor's name and financial abbreviations are saved in the pronunciation dictionary. For ambiguous words, add tashkeel in one click and review the change, or listen to the possible readings and choose.
Arabic and English in the same sentence
Business and university decks are full of English terms in the middle of Arabic speech. They are read inside the sentence with no need to split them into another file, and you can also generate a full English version of the deck.
How it works
How to add voice-over to your deck slide by slide
Step 1
Write speaker notes, not slide text
Do not read out what the viewer can already see. For each slide, write what you would say to explain it: two to five sentences, conclusion first, evidence second.
Step 2
Number the segments by slide
Paste the scripts into Vocla in order, since there is no PowerPoint file import. Note the slide number next to each segment in your notes so you know which file belongs to which slide.
Step 3
Choose the voice on the numbers slide
Audition voices on the hardest slide in the deck, usually the one with figures, ratios and jargon, not on the welcome slide. Write numbers as words, the way you want to hear them.
Step 4
Generate each slide and name its file
Download the files with names like slide-01 and slide-02. Listen to each once, and regenerate any where a word stumbled after fixing its tashkeel.
Step 5
Insert the audio in your presentation software
From the Insert menu, add the audio file to its slide and set it to start automatically, then set the slide to advance when the audio ends. If you want to send the deck as a single file, export it as a video from the same software.
Listen to the voices
Voices that fit this job
Public voices from the library whose style suits this work. Play a sample or open a voice for details.
Text to speech in the matching dialects
Cost
What does narrating a whole deck cost?
A fifteen-slide deck at around four sentences per slide comes to a few thousand characters, which is a few minutes of audio. Each thousand characters uses from 800 to 1,200 credits depending on the model, and you see the cost of every segment before generating it. The Free plan gives you 500͏ credits a month to use on a university or personal presentation.
Work decks are a different matter. A pitch deck, a company report or a marketing webinar is commercial use and needs the Starter plan at $4.99 a month or higher, which also adds WAV export. If you produce recorded presentations every week, the Professional plan with 80,000 credits a month is the more comfortable fit.
Compare plansThe numbers
Quick maths
Worked example: a 5-minute script is about 4,000 to 6,000 credits.
- Free plan: 500͏ credits a month for text to speech, with MP3 downloads, for personal use only.
- Text to speech uses 800 to 1,200 credits per 1,000 characters, depending on the model. 1,000 characters is about one spoken minute, and tashkeel marks are never counted.
- Commercial usage rights and WAV export start with Starter: $4.99 a month with 5,000 credits.
Figures use the current plans and default credit rates. The exact cost is always shown in the app before you confirm.
Questions people ask
How do I add an Arabic voice-over to a PowerPoint presentation?
Write a script for each slide, generate it in Vocla and download the MP3. Then open your deck, insert the audio file on its slide from the Insert menu and set it to play automatically. Repeat for every slide. There is no Vocla add-in inside PowerPoint, so inserting is manual, but it takes only moments per slide.
Is there a PowerPoint add-in or direct integration?
No. Vocla runs in the browser and gives you audio files, and you add them to whichever presentation software you use. It does not import the deck file either, so you copy your speaker notes and paste them in segment by segment.
Can I do this for free for a university presentation?
Yes. A university presentation is personal use, which the Free plan covers with its monthly credits and MP3 downloads. Before creating an account you can also try 200 characters in the demo on this page. Just check that your course allows AI-generated narration.
One audio file for the whole deck, or one per slide?
One per slide is better in most cases: the audio stays in step with the slides without manual timing, and editing one slide does not force you to regenerate the rest. A single long file only makes sense if you will assemble the presentation in a video editor and set the timing there.
How long should the narration be for each slide?
Between twenty and forty seconds per slide in most presentations, which is roughly three hundred to seven hundred characters. If a slide needs more than a minute, it most likely carries two ideas and deserves to be split into two slides.
Can the voice-over be in my own voice without recording each slide?
Yes, with voice cloning, available from the Starter plan. You record one clean sample of your voice, at least ten seconds and ideally a minute or two, and your cloned voice then reads every slide script while keeping your accent. You may clone your own voice or a voice whose owner has given you written permission.
Go deeper
- The tool: Text to speechTurn scripts into lifelike Arabic speech
- Plans and pricesWhat each plan includes, side by side
- Voice libraryPlay real samples by dialect
- The AI Voiceover Workflow: From Script to Final Audio in Nine StepsRead the guide
- How to Add Pauses in Text to Speech and Control the Speed of Your AI VoiceoverRead the guide
- Voiceover Words per Minute: Arabic vs English, with 15, 30 and 60-Second Word CountsRead the guide
The broader use case
Explainer videos
Product and marketing explainers in clear Arabic.
Read moreمع تطبيقنا، تقدر تتابع طلباتك كلها من شاشة وحدة، وتعرف وين وصلت بضغطة زر.
E-learning & training
Courses, lessons and training in clear Arabic.
Read moreفي هذا الدرس سنتعرّف على أساسيات إدارة المشاريع، وكيف نخطط لكل مرحلة بخطوات واضحة.
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