Cantonese Text to Speech

Cantonese and Hong Kong English, the two registers local content actually uses. Every voice here plays a sample.

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All Hong Kong AI voices

Every Hong Kong voice Fliki ships

Every voice tagged to this dialect, across each language and TTS engine that covers it. Many have an instant sample you can tap to listen to, no account needed.

5 Hong Kong voices

HiuGaai♀

Standard

HiuMaan♀

Standard

WanLung♂

Standard

Sam♂

Standard

Yan♀

Standard

The written Cantonese problem

What you type decides whether it sounds spoken or read out

This is the thing that makes most Hong Kong voice overs sound stilted, and it is invisible in the text.

Hong Kong writes one language and speaks another

Formal writing in Hong Kong uses Standard Written Chinese, which follows Mandarin grammar and vocabulary. Read aloud by a Cantonese voice it comes out correct and bookish, because nobody speaks that way. Written Cantonese is a separate register with its own characters, and a script written in it sounds like a person rather than a document.

The characters that mark the difference

Colloquial Cantonese uses characters that Standard Written Chinese never does. Writing the spoken forms rather than their formal equivalents is what changes a read from an announcement into a conversation. For advertising and social video it is worth the rewrite. For legal, corporate and government material, the formal register is correct and expected.

How it works

Producing a Hong Kong voice over

Choose the register, write it out, check the names, export.

Step 1

Decide formal or colloquial first

Standard Written Chinese for official and corporate material, written Cantonese for anything meant to sound spoken. Converting afterwards means rewriting, not editing, because the grammar differs rather than just the words.

Step 2

Use Traditional characters

Hong Kong writes Traditional. Text converted from Simplified usually survives, but the vocabulary differences from mainland sources come through and a local audience notices them.

Step 3

Check names, street names and numbers

Hong Kong place names mix Cantonese romanisation with English, so Tsim Sha Tsui and Causeway Bay need different handling depending on which language the sentence is in. Numbers group in ten thousands, not thousands.

Step 4

Take the file, or the finished cut

Take MP3 for radio, announcements and phone systems, or build visuals and subtitles here and export a 1080p MP4 for each language from one project.

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What Cantonese voices are used for

Six jobs across two languages

Hong Kong content is rarely produced in one language only.

Retail

Retail campaigns in Cantonese

Campaign cuts that need a Cantonese read, not a Mandarin one.

PromotionsProduct video

Corporate

Training and compliance material

Modules that ship in Cantonese and English at the same time.

TrainingCompliance

Public

Transit and building announcements

Recordings in two or three languages, updated on a schedule.

AnnouncementsService lines

Social

Short video for local feeds

The colloquial register, which is where written Cantonese pays off.

Short videoReels

Bilingual

English and Cantonese cuts

Two versions of one campaign from a single project.

Video translation Subtitles

Learning

Cantonese language material

Pronunciation practice for learners who cannot find Cantonese audio.

Language materialPractice audio

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Every Hong Kong language Fliki speaks

Each language has its own voice library and its own page. Open one to hear every voice and read the pronunciation notes for that script.

Chinese voices

The full Chinese library, including the Mandarin voices for mainland work.

English voices

Every English accent, for the international version of the same project.

Cantonese TTS FAQ

Cantonese voices, answered

Written Cantonese, Mandarin, Hong Kong English, cost and rights.

Usually because it is written in Standard Written Chinese rather than in Cantonese. Hong Kong writes formally in a register that follows Mandarin grammar, which is exactly right for official and corporate material. Rewriting the script in written Cantonese, with the colloquial characters and sentence patterns, is what turns the same content into something that sounds spoken.

Not for a Hong Kong audience. Cantonese and Mandarin are not mutually intelligible when spoken: Cantonese has six tones to Mandarin’s four and preserves final consonants Mandarin lost. A Mandarin voice over in Hong Kong is a foreign language rather than an accent. The Mandarin voices are on the Chinese language page, where they belong.

Yes, and they are listed on this page alongside the Cantonese ones. Hong Kong English has its own rhythm and vowel set, shaped by Cantonese, and it is what most local corporate and public material uses for its English version. Producing both cuts in one project keeps the timing matched to the same visuals.

Traditional, which is what Hong Kong uses. Text converted from Simplified sources generally works, but the vocabulary and phrasing differences from the mainland survive the conversion and a Hong Kong audience hears them. If the source is mainland material, budget for an editing pass rather than a character conversion.

Yes, and it is one of the better uses here, since Cantonese audio material is genuinely hard to find. Paste the text, generate, and play a line back as many times as you need. Written Cantonese gives you the colloquial pronunciation; Standard Written Chinese gives you the literary readings, which is also useful if that is what you are studying.

Yes, on a paid plan. Audio generated on a paid plan is royalty free and cleared for advertising, client work, YouTube monetisation, training and phone systems. Video exported on the free plan keeps a small Fliki watermark.

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