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Highlights
5 features
Urdu and English in one sentence
Rehnuma Awaz moves between Urdu and English mid-sentence, the way Pakistanis talk, without an awkward pause or a jarring change of voice.
Available on: All platforms
Voices that sound human
Neural male and female voices, developed in Pakistan for Urdu. Warm, clear and comfortable to listen to for hours, even at the high speeds experienced listeners prefer.
Available on: All platforms
On your phone and your computer
The same Urdu voice on Windows, Android, iPhone, iPad and Mac, so the voice you hear at your desk is the one in your pocket.
Available on: All platforms
Works inside your screen reader
Rehnuma Awaz plugs into NVDA, TalkBack and VoiceOver. You keep the screen reader, shortcuts and gestures you know, and gain a natural Urdu voice.
Available on: All platforms
Free for everyone
No fees and no subscriptions, on any platform. Reading in your own language should cost you nothing.
Available on: All platforms
Reading and pronunciation
8 features
Urdu pronunciation dictionary
A hand-checked dictionary of more than 18,000 Urdu words for correct pronunciation.
Available on: Windows (NVDA)AndroidiOSmacOS
Numbers, dates and more
Rehnuma Awaz reads numbers, dates, times, money, percentages and web addresses the way people say them.
Available on: Windows (NVDA)AndroidiOSmacOS
Short English inside Urdu
The Urdu voice reads one or two English words inside an Urdu sentence, such as “OK” or “mobile phone”, so the sentence flows in one voice.
Available on: Windows (NVDA)
Choose the language for numbers
Read numbers in the language of the surrounding text, always in Urdu, or always in English.
Available on: Windows (NVDA)
Number processing
Read numbers digit by digit, in pairs, in groups of three, or as the full value.
Available on: Android
Adjustable pauses
Set how long the voice pauses after sentences, at commas and at phrase breaks in long Urdu sentences.
Available on: Windows (NVDA)
Time announcement
Hear the time in English, in short Urdu (such as “دو تیس”), or in full Urdu with the time of day.
Available on: Android
User dictionary
Change how Rehnuma Awaz pronounces particular words or phrases. You can export your dictionary and import it on another device.
Available on: Android
Characters and symbols
4 features
Urdu names for every character
Hear the Urdu name of each letter, diacritic, Quranic mark and punctuation mark as you type or move by character.
Available on: Windows (NVDA)AndroidiOSmacOS
Religious ligatures
Rehnuma Awaz reads ligatures such as ﷺ and ﷽ in full.
Available on: Windows (NVDA)AndroidiOSmacOS
Text copied from PDFs
Rehnuma Awaz recognises the joined letter shapes in text copied from PDF files and reads them as the letters they stand for.
Available on: Windows (NVDA)
Urdu symbol dictionary
Urdu names for punctuation and symbols such as ، ؛ ؟ and ۔, following NVDA’s punctuation level.
Available on: Windows (NVDA)
Voices
8 features
Separate Urdu and English settings
Set the speed and pitch of the Urdu and English voices separately.
Available on: Windows (NVDA)AndroidiOSmacOS
Use other speech engines for English
Pair Rehnuma’s Urdu voice with another speech engine you like for English, each with its own settings.
Available on: Windows (NVDA)AndroidiOSmacOS
Expressiveness and rhythm
Make the voices sound more varied or more even.
Available on: Windows (NVDA)
Natural speed-up
At high speeds the voice first speaks faster on its own before the audio speeds up, which sounds more natural.
Available on: Windows (NVDA)
Single-voice mode
Turn off language switching and let one voice read all the text.
Available on: Windows (NVDA)
Settings ring
Change voice, rate, pitch and volume on the fly with NVDA’s synth settings ring.
Available on: Windows (NVDA)
Low mode
A lightweight formant engine, similar to Eloquence, for low-end phones that cannot run neural voices.
Available on: Android
Custom voice design
Dozens of sliders to shape and design a complete custom voice for low mode.
Available on: Android
Voice downloads
3 features
Download and manage voices
Download more Urdu and English voices, update them and remove the ones you do not need.
Available on: Windows (NVDA)AndroidiOSmacOS
Preview voices
Listen to a sample of a voice before you download it.
Available on: Windows (NVDA)AndroidiOSmacOS
Works offline
Installed voices work without an internet connection.
Available on: Windows (NVDA)AndroidiOSmacOS
App tools
4 features
Type anything to listen
Type any text in the app and hear it in Rehnuma’s voices, without running a screen reader or accessibility service.
Available on: AndroidiOSmacOS
Text to audio file
Type any text in the app and save it as an audio file in Rehnuma’s voice.
Available on: AndroidiOSmacOS
Report pronunciation mistakes
Send our team any word Rehnuma pronounces wrongly, so they can correct it.
Available on: AndroidiOSmacOS
Battery announcements
Hear the battery level in English or Urdu, at an interval you choose.
Available on: Android
Works with
2 features
Works with automatic language switchers
Use Rehnuma Awaz alongside third-party tools that switch voices by language.
Available on: Windows (NVDA)AndroidiOSmacOS
Urdu sentences in Microsoft Word
Move by sentence in Word with Alt+Up and Alt+Down Arrow, and sentences now end at ۔ and ؟ too.
Available on: Windows (NVDA)
Updates and help
2 features
Built-in user guide
A detailed guide in Urdu and English, right inside Rehnuma Awaz.
Available on: Windows (NVDA)AndroidiOSmacOS
Automatic updates
The add-on finds new versions and updates itself, and keeps your voices and settings.
Available on: Windows (NVDA)
Privacy and performance
3 features
Private by design
The voices run on your own computer. The text you hear read aloud stays there.
Available on: Windows (NVDA)
Fast and light
Speech starts without a noticeable delay and uses little processor power.
Available on: Windows (NVDA)
No silence at start-up
Your previous voice keeps speaking while Rehnuma’s voices load.
Available on: Windows (NVDA)