Publishing
Podcast intro
Croeso i Tech Talk, y podlediad lle rydym yn archwilio'r arloesiadau diweddaraf sy'n llunio ein byd digidol. Fi yw eich cyflwynydd, a heddiw byddwn yn plymio i mewn i ddeallusrwydd artiffisial.
Languages & voices
Welsh text to speech voices
4 ReadSpeaker text to speech voices in Welsh (cy-CY): 2 female and 2 male, from 2 voice providers.
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4 voices in Welsh
2 neural voices in Welsh
2 voice providers for Welsh
The catalogue
Welsh voices
Listen to every Welsh voice before you choose one. All 4 speak the same Welsh sample sentence.
Technical details of every Welsh voice
| Voice | Gender | Technology | Provider | Available in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anwen | Female | Neural | VoiceText-DNN | Cloud, Licensing |
| Arwyn | Male | Neural | VoiceText-DNN | Cloud, Licensing |
| Geraint | Male | - | Ivona | Cloud |
| Gwyneth | Female | - | Ivona | Cloud |
Cloud voices are available in ReadSpeaker’s online products; Licensing voices are available for on-premises and embedded deployments.
600000
Welsh speakers worldwide.
Every one of them is a potential listener. ReadSpeaker gives your content a Welsh voice, in the Welsh they hear every day, on the web, in your documents, in your apps and on your devices.
Source
- Wikipedia. Welsh language. Retrieved 2026-08-26. Open the source
Use cases
What Welsh voices are used for
Three of the places a Welsh voice goes to work. Each one is read here by a different voice, drawn from the 4 Welsh voices in the catalogue.
Accessibility
Screen reader
Prif ddewislen llywio. Hafan, dolen. Cynnyrch, is-ddewislen gyda 5 eitem. Amdanom ni, dolen. Cyswllt, dolen. Botwm chwilio. Rydych chi ar y dudalen hafan ar hyn o bryd.
Transportation
Subway station
Y trên nesaf ar blatfform 2 yw'r gwasanaeth i Fae Caerdydd. Gwyliwch y bwlch rhwng y trên a'r platfform os gwelwch yn dda.
Sample
What you hear in Welsh
Helo, fi yw'r llais Cymraeg, fi yw un o'r lleisiau y gallwch eu defnyddio wrth alluogi eich gwefan â llais. Wrth ddarllen eich testun, mae'n swnio fel hyn.Custom Voice
A Welsh voice that is yours alone
Anwen speaks Welsh 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 a Welsh speaker you choose, or work from recordings you already own.
Your sound
The way your speaker says Welsh 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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FAQ
Welsh text to speech, answered
ReadSpeaker offers 4 Welsh text to speech voices, 2 female and 2 male. Every Welsh voice speaks Welsh (cy-CY), and each one can be played on this page before you choose.
600000 Welsh speakers worldwide, according to Welsh language on Wikipedia. Welsh text to speech lets you reach them in Welsh, the language they hear every day.
2 Welsh voices use neural synthesis: Anwen and Arwyn. Neural voices model intonation across the whole sentence, which is what makes a Welsh reading sound spoken rather than assembled.
Yes. Of the 4 Welsh voices, 4 in ReadSpeaker's online products and 2 for on-premises and embedded deployments. Licensed Welsh voices run inside your own infrastructure, so no text ever leaves it.
The Welsh catalogue is built with 2 voice providers: Ivona and VoiceText-DNN. ReadSpeaker selects and tunes each Welsh voice, and serves them all through one interface.
Yes. ReadSpeaker Custom Voice builds a Welsh voice that belongs to your brand alone, trained on a speaker you choose, speaking the same Welsh you hear from Anwen on this page. It is then delivered through the same products as every catalogue voice.