Kurdish TTS & STT API

Kurdish voice AI, for developers

A fast REST API for Kurdish text-to-speech and speech-to-text. One-shot or streaming, word-level timestamps. Text-to-speech: Sorani, Kurmanji and Badini (a variety of Kurmanji, in the Arabic script). Speech-to-text: Sorani and Kurmanji. Free to start.

891 voicesSorani and Kurmanji, six Badini voicesWord-level timestampsNo credit card

See the quickstart

Just want to use the web app?

# Text to speech → saves hello.wav
curl -X POST https://www.kurdishtts.com/api/tts-proxy \
  -H "x-api-key: $KURDISH_TTS_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"speaker_id": "sorani_1", "model_version": "v4", "text": "سڵاو، ئەمە دەنگی کوردییە."}' \
  --output hello.wav

POST /api/tts-proxy → returns audio/wav

Start in three steps

From zero to your first Kurdish audio in a couple of minutes.

Create an API key

Generate a key under Settings → API. It's shown once, so store it as an environment variable.

Call the endpoint

POST with your x-api-key header and a JSON body. Omit model_version for v3, or pass "v4" — both keep working exactly as they do today.

Receive audio

The response is audio/wav. Add "include_timestamps": true for word-level timings and a JSON payload.

One API, three endpoints

Authenticate every request with your x-api-key header.

POST/api/tts-proxy

Text to speech

Send text, get natural Kurdish audio back as WAV, with optional word-level timestamps.

POST/api/stt-proxy

Speech to text

Upload an audio file, get a transcript back. Sorani or Kurmanji, with word-level timings.

POST/api/stt-stream-connect

Streaming STT

Open a short-lived WebSocket and transcribe audio in real time as it arrives.

POST /api/stt-proxy

# Speech to text → JSON transcript
curl -X POST https://www.kurdishtts.com/api/stt-proxy \
  -H "x-api-key: $KURDISH_STT_KEY" \
  -F "file=@audio.wav" \
  -F "dialect=sorani"

Or skip the code — connect over MCP

Claude, Claude Code and Cursor call Kurdish speech natively over the Model Context Protocol.

https://www.kurdishtts.com/api/mcp

claude mcp add --transport http kurdish-tts \
  https://www.kurdishtts.com/api/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TTS_KEY:YOUR_STT_KEY"

Three of the six tools work with no API key, so an agent can browse the voice catalog before you sign up. MCP setup guide for Claude and Cursor.

891

voices

TTS dialects

TTS model

WAV

audio output

Live

streaming TTS + STT

x-api-key

auth

Pricing

One subscription covers the web app and the developer API. Pick the side you work on, or take both. Start free, no credit card. Every plan runs on V5, our newest model — the V3 and V4 voices are still inside it, alongside the new Cast and Studio voices, so there is no older model to buy your way out of.

FreeNo credit card

10,000 characters / month in the web app · 20,000 characters / month through the API · 2 hours Speech-to-text / month · 6 voices (Web app) · 10 voices (API)

Evaluation and testing only

Creator

$9.58/ month~~$12~~

billed $115 / year

For people making things in the web app.

Web app

Full volume

API

Free level

1M characters / month in the web app
20,000 characters / month through the API
20 hours Speech-to-text / month
All 891 voices, Sorani and Kurmanji — six of them Badini
One-shot and streaming, on both TTS and STT
Commercial use

Cancel anytime · 30-day money-back

Developer

$15.17/ month~~$19~~

billed $182 / year

For people building Kurdish voice into their own product.

Web app

Free level

API

Full volume

10,000 characters / month in the web app
1M characters / month through the API
20 hours Speech-to-text / month
All 891 voices, Sorani and Kurmanji — six of them Badini
One-shot and streaming, on both TTS and STT
Commercial use

Cancel anytime · 30-day money-back

Pro

$23.17/ month~~$29~~

billed $278 / year

Both sides at full volume, and the right to ship what you make.

Web app

Full volume

API

Full volume

3M characters / month in the web app
3M characters / month through the API
100 hours Speech-to-text / month
All 891 voices, Sorani and Kurmanji — six of them Badini
One-shot and streaming, on both TTS and STT
Commercial use and redistribution

Cancel anytime · 30-day money-back

Business

$79.17/ month~~$99~~

billed $950 / year

For companies with contracts, affiliates and a procurement team.

Web app

Full volume

API

Full volume

10M characters / month in the web app
10M characters / month through the API
333 hours Speech-to-text / month
All 891 voices, Sorani and Kurmanji — six of them Badini
One-shot and streaming, on both TTS and STT
Redistribution, affiliates, and a data processing agreement

Cancel anytime · 30-day money-back

Enterprise

Custom

For teams running Kurdish speech in production, where uptime and procurement matter as much as throughput.

Talk to us

Everything in Business, plus:

Uptime commitment with service credits

Volume and throughput sized to your workload

Security review and a signed data processing agreement

Invoice or bank transfer, billed annually

Licence covering your company and its affiliates

Named contact and onboarding support

Compare every plan

Feature	Free	Creator	Developer	Pro	Business
Characters / month · Web app	10,000	1M	10,000	3M	10M
Characters / month · API	20,000	20,000	1M	3M	10M
Speech-to-text / month	2 hours	20 hours	20 hours	100 hours	333 hours
Voices (Web app)	6	891	891	891	891
Voices (API)	10	891	891	891	891
Live streaming sessions	20	100	100	500	2,000
Longest live session	2 minutes	10 minutes	10 minutes	30 minutes	60 minutes
Largest audio upload	10MB	50MB	50MB	100MB	200MB
Transcript length	500	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Licence	Evaluation and testing only	Commercial use	Commercial use	Commercial use and redistribution	Redistribution, affiliates, and a data processing agreement

The licence is what separates the tiers, not the volume. What you may do with the audio is set out in full in the terms.

One-time purchase

Need more API characters?

Top up without changing plan. Packs never expire and are used automatically once your monthly allowance runs out. They apply to the API only, not the web app.

Starter

500,000 characters

$0.006 / 1K chars

$3one-time

500,000 characters added to your balance. Purchased characters survive the monthly reset.

Best value

Popular

1M characters

$0.005 / 1K chars

$5one-time

1M characters added to your balance. Purchased characters survive the monthly reset.

Power user

5M characters

$0.004 / 1K chars

$20one-time

5M characters added to your balance. Purchased characters survive the monthly reset.

Limits and quotas

Published in Free · Creator · Pro · Business order. A request past a free-tier quota returns a 403 with an upgrade hint, never a silent failure. Paid plans keep working past their included volume and we email you.

Per-request text: 500 chars (free) · 5,000 (paid)
STT upload size: 10MB · 50MB · 100MB · 200MB
TTS quota (API): 20,000 · 20,000 · 3M · 10M Characters / month
STT audio: 2 · 20 · 100 · 333 hours
Live streaming sessions: 20 · 100 · 500 · 2,000
Longest live session: 2 · 10 · 30 · 60 minutes
Rate limiting: Quota-based (403 past quota)
Dialect: Inferred from the speaker_id prefix

At Pro the plan works out at $9.67 per 1,000,000 characters, and the same subscription covers the web app and 100 hours of speech-to-text rather than billing them separately.

Build with Kurdish voice today

Generate a key and make your first call in minutes. Free tier, no credit card.

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