Text to speech
Arabic voice-over for restaurant ads, cafés and food reels
You filmed the dish coming out of the oven. Now the customer needs to hear the line that makes them order it. Write two sentences about the offer and get an Arabic voice-over in your city's dialect within minutes. For restaurant and café owners, cloud kitchens and the people who run their social accounts.
- 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 scripts for your restaurant clips
Change the dish, the district and the offer, and hear the first script in the demo at the top of the page.
Lunch deal for a reel
Saudi Arabicوش رايك في برجر لحم طازج ينشوي قدامك، وجبنة تذوب على أطرافه؟ الحين وجبة الغداء مع بطاطس ومشروب بسعر واحد. مطعم لقمة، حي النرجس. تعال جرّب، الطعم مرة غير.
What it says: How about a fresh beef burger grilled in front of you, with cheese melting over the edges? Right now the lunch meal comes with fries and a drink for one price. Luqma restaurant, Al-Narjis district. Come and try it, the taste is something else. (About thirty words, for a fifteen-second vertical clip.)
Café opening invitation
Modern Standard Arabicندعوكم إلى افتتاح مقهى ركن البنّ يوم الجمعة في شارع الأمير سلطان. قهوة مختصة تُحمَّص كل أسبوع، ومخبوزات تخرج من الفرن كل صباح، وجلسات خارجية هادئة. كوبكم الأول ضيافة منّا طوال يوم الافتتاح.
What it says: You are invited to the opening of Rukn Al-Bunn café this Friday on Prince Sultan Street. Specialty coffee roasted every week, pastries out of the oven every morning, and quiet outdoor seating. Your first cup is on us all opening day.
Delivery promo
Lebanese Arabicجوعان وما بدّك تطلع من البيت؟ هلق فيك تطلب من مطبخ ستّي وبيوصل الأكل سخن لعندك. مشاوي، مازة، وتبولة كتير طيبة متل ما بتحبّها. شو ناطر؟ اطلب هلق، والتوصيل علينا بأول طلبية.
What it says: Hungry and don't feel like leaving the house? You can now order from Matbakh Sitti and the food arrives hot at your door. Grills, mezze and a really good tabbouleh, just the way you like it. What are you waiting for? Order now, and delivery is on us for your first order.
Every recording is real Vocla output in a public library voice, published unedited.
Made with Vocla VideoThe voice inside a video
Hear an Arabic voice-over inside a finished video
This is a real Vocla Video: its voice-over is a Vocla library voice, and the scenes, burned-in captions and music were added in the same tool. The audio you generate from this page goes under your own footage the same way.
A restaurant ad in an Egyptian voice — Made with Vocla Video
Voice-over dialect: Egyptian
About Vocla Video
The problem
The clip looks good, but it says nothing
Most restaurant clips go out with a trending track and nothing else: a shot of melting cheese, then the logo.
The viewer sees the dish but not its name, its price or the fact that the offer ends on Friday, and keeps scrolling.
Recording a voice in a restaurant is hard. There is the kitchen and the extractor fan, an owner who dislikes the sound of their own voice, and a staff member reading the offer like a receipt. Hiring a voice artist for a twenty-second clip does not add up when you post three clips a week.
And the menu never stands still. A seasonal dish this week, a lunch deal the next, a delivery discount at the end of the month. Each change needs a new clip the same day, before the offer goes cold.
Why Vocla
Why Vocla for food advertising
The dialect of your city
A customer in Jeddah does not order the way one in Cairo or Beirut does. Choose Saudi, Egyptian, Lebanese, Emirati, Kuwaiti or another dialect, and write the offer in the words people actually use at your tables.
A delivery that sounds appetising
Raise expressiveness a little and add a pause before the description of the dish, so words like crispy and charcoal-grilled come out with the tone they deserve, not the tone of a news bulletin.
Dish names said the way people say them
English words inside an Arabic sentence are read, such as specialty coffee drinks and burger names. If a local dish name stumbles, add tashkeel or save it in the pronunciation dictionary once and it is read correctly in every clip after that.
Today's offer goes out today
Price changed, or the seasonal dish is over? Edit the line and generate again in a minute, in the same voice your followers already know.
Commercial rights from Starter
A restaurant ad is commercial use. The Starter plan and above give you commercial usage rights and WAV export; the Free plan is for personal trials only.
How it works
From a shot of the dish to a clip that speaks
Step 1
Watch the clip and time it
A fifteen-second clip holds about thirty Arabic words. Note the moment the finished dish appears, because that is when its name should be said.
Step 2
Open with the dish, not the restaurant's name
The first seconds belong to the senses: texture, smell, how it is cooked. Then the offer and the price written as words, and last the restaurant and the district. One sentence per shot.
Step 3
Pick a voice that sounds like your place
A fast, young voice for a burger joint, a calmer one for a specialty café or a family restaurant. Try two on the opening line and keep one for all your clips.
Step 4
Generate and match the length
Play the result against the clip. If the voice runs ahead of the picture, add a pause; if it lags, cut a spare adjective or raise the speed a notch.
Step 5
Download the file and lay it in
Download the MP3 or WAV, place it under the clip in the editing app on your phone, lower the music beneath it, then post it yourself. Vocla does not publish directly to social platforms.
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 a restaurant clip cost to voice?
Food clips are short, which works in your favour. Cost follows the number of characters, and a twenty-second clip needs only a few hundred, a small fraction of the per-thousand-character rate of 800 to 1,200 credits depending on the model. You see what a generation will use before you press the button.
Because the ad is for a business, you need the Starter plan or higher at $4.99 a month; its 5,000 credits cover several short clips a month, with top-ups for busy seasons. Audition voices and dialects first on the Free plan and its 500͏ credits a month, for personal use only.
Compare plansThe numbers
Quick maths
Worked example: a 30-second script is about 400 to 600 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.
Publishing this for a business?
The Free plan is for personal use and evaluation. Audio and video you publish for a brand, a client or a monetised channel need commercial usage rights, which start with the Starter plan.
Questions people ask
Can I make a voice-over for my restaurant ad for free?
You can try it at no cost: the demo on this page reads up to 200 characters with no sign-up, and the Free plan gives you 500͏ credits a month for personal use. Publishing the clip as an ad for your restaurant is commercial use and needs the Starter plan or higher.
Which Arabic dialect should a restaurant ad use?
The dialect of the neighbourhood your customers come from. A local restaurant speaks its city's dialect, and a chain with branches in several countries generates the same script in each market's dialect. Modern Standard Arabic suits fine dining and formal opening invitations more than daily offer clips.
How many words do I need for a 15-second reel?
About thirty Arabic words at a slightly quick pace, and fewer if you want to leave a moment for the sound of the grill or the coffee being poured. Write less than you think you need, then check the file against the clip and add a sentence if there is room.
Does the audio post straight to Reels or Snapchat?
No. There is no direct connection to social platforms or editing apps. You download the MP3 or WAV, add it to the clip in whichever editing app you use, then post from your own account like any other clip.
Will it pronounce English dish names correctly?
English words inside an Arabic sentence are read. If you want one particular pronunciation for a dish or for your restaurant's name, add it to the pronunciation dictionary, or spell it in Arabic letters the way your customers say it, and listen before you approve it.
Can I use my own voice for my restaurant's ads?
Yes, with voice cloning, available from the Starter plan. You record a clean sample of your voice of at least 10 seconds, and the cloned voice then reads your offers in your own dialect. You may only clone your own voice or a voice whose owner has given 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
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