Healthcare
Medication alert
Isikhumbuzo somuthi: Sekuyisikhathi sokuthatha umuthi wakho wakusihlwa. Sicela uthathe iphilisi eli-1 le-Lisinopril namanzi agcwele. Ungakhohlwa ukubhala phansi i-blood pressure yakho.
Languages & voices
IsiZulu text to speech voices
2 ReadSpeaker text to speech voices in IsiZulu (zu-ZA): 1 female and 1 male, from 1 voice provider.
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2 voices in IsiZulu
1 voice provider for IsiZulu
The catalogue
IsiZulu voices
Listen to every IsiZulu voice before you choose one. All 2 speak the same IsiZulu sample sentence.
Technical details of every IsiZulu voice
| Voice | Gender | Technology | Provider | Available in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lindiwe | Female | - | CSIR/Qfrency | Cloud |
| Sifiso | Male | - | CSIR/Qfrency | Cloud |
Cloud voices are available in ReadSpeaker’s online products; Licensing voices are available for on-premises and embedded deployments.
27 million
IsiZulu speakers worldwide.
Every one of them is a potential listener. ReadSpeaker gives your content a IsiZulu voice, in the IsiZulu they hear every day, on the web, in your documents, in your apps and on your devices.
Source
- Wikipedia. Languages of South Africa. Retrieved 2026-08-26. Open the source
Use cases
What IsiZulu voices are used for
Three of the places an IsiZulu voice goes to work. Each one is read here by a different voice, drawn from the 2 IsiZulu voices in the catalogue.
Education
Exam instructions
Unemizuzu engama-60 ukuqeda lolu vivinyo. Funda umbuzo ngamunye ngokucophelela ngaphambi kokuphendula. Amadivayisi e-elektroniki awamukelwa ngesikhathi sokuhlolwa.
Accessibility
Document reader
Imigomo yokusebenzisa, ibuyekezwe kugcina ngo-Januwari 2024. Isigaba 1: Ukwamukelwa kwemigomo. Ngokufinyelela noma ukusebenzisa izinsiza zethu, uyavuma ukuboshwa yile migomo.
Sample
What you hear in IsiZulu
Sawubona, ngingomunye wamazwi ongawasebenzisa ukuze uvule iwebhusayithi yakho. Uma ngifunda umbhalo wakho uzwakala kanje.Custom Voice
An IsiZulu voice that is yours alone
Lindiwe speaks IsiZulu for everyone. A Custom Voice speaks it only for you: your own speaker, your own sound, trained into a voice no competitor can use.
Your speaker
We record an IsiZulu speaker you choose, or work from recordings you already own.
Your sound
The way your speaker says IsiZulu is kept, not smoothed into a neutral read.
Your products
The finished voice is delivered through the same products as every catalogue voice.
The whole catalogue
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IsiZulu is one of the languages and accents ReadSpeaker speaks. Turn the globe, pick a pin, hear the voice.
FAQ
IsiZulu text to speech, answered
ReadSpeaker offers 2 IsiZulu text to speech voices, 1 female and 1 male. Every IsiZulu voice speaks IsiZulu (zu-ZA), and each one can be played on this page before you choose.
27 million IsiZulu speakers worldwide, according to Languages of South Africa on Wikipedia. IsiZulu text to speech lets you reach them in IsiZulu, the language they hear every day.
Not today. Of the 2 IsiZulu voices, 2 in ReadSpeaker's online products. Licensed IsiZulu voices run inside your own infrastructure, so no text ever leaves it.
The IsiZulu catalogue is built with 1 voice provider: CSIR/Qfrency. ReadSpeaker selects and tunes each IsiZulu voice, and serves them all through one interface.
Yes. ReadSpeaker Custom Voice builds a IsiZulu voice that belongs to your brand alone, trained on a speaker you choose, speaking the same IsiZulu you hear from Lindiwe on this page. It is then delivered through the same products as every catalogue voice.