The new frontier in Korean
text-to-speech

Create extraordinary voice experiences in Korean and 60+ languages with expressive control, exceptional precision, instant voice cloning, and low-latency streaming.

Trusted by teams building global voice products

Livekit
Krisp
Pipecat
Summary AI
Perplexity
Samsung
Wispr Flow
LG
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Retell AI
Fireflies.ai
Skit.ai
Kindroid
Deliver Health
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Journalia
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Vapi
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Japan AI
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Uniscribe
Jamie.ai
InteractCX
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Onvego
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SotaTek

A new standard for Korean AI speech

Korean is spoken by over 82 million people worldwide across South Korea, North Korea, United States, and beyond. Production text-to-speech for Korean still breaks on the details that matter most: phone numbers get scrambled, names are mispronounced, and mixed-language text falls apart.

Soniox TTS handles the real-world patterns that other systems get wrong, delivering high-fidelity Korean speech with robust pronunciation, precise rendering of alphanumerics, natural language switching, and low-latency streaming.

Exceptional quality in Korean

Hear the same voice deliver natural, expressive speech in Korean and across 60+ languages with consistent quality, identity, and pronunciation.

Hallucination-free Korean speech generation

The Korean text you send is exactly what gets spoken. No invented words, dropped content, or unexpected substitutions.

tts · fidelity
Input text

예약이 6월 3일 오전 9시 45분으로 확정되었습니다.

Spoken

예약이 6월 3일 오전 9시 45분으로 확정되었습니다.

Alphanumerics spoken correctly in Korean

Email addresses, phone numbers, addresses, IDs, and codes spoken clearly and precisely in Korean.

tts · alphanumerics
Phone number
+1 (415) 555-0132
Spoken

플러스

Names pronounced naturally in Korean

Handle person names, place names, brand names, and borrowed words with the pronunciation Korean speakers expect.

tts · pronunciation
English name
Beyoncé
Spoken

bee · YON · say

Streaming Korean speech before the sentence ends

Start generating Korean speech from the first few words, before the full sentence is available, for low-latency voice agents and live systems.

Incoming textStreaming

물론입니다. 예약 변경 도와드릴게요. 어느 날짜가 편하실까요?

Generated speechSpeaking

Precise timing for every character

Character-level timestamps let applications synchronize Korean text and audio, stop cleanly during interruptions, and continue from the correct point.

Agent
, ,
User
저기, 날짜를 변경할 수 있을까요?
Agent
. ?
Character timestamps
2.95s
3.00s
3.10s
3.20s
3.25s
3.30s
3.35s
?3.40s

Seamless language switching with Korean mid-sentence

Speak mixed-language text naturally in a single utterance, switching between Korean and other languages with the right flow and pronunciation.

Korean

Estimate your Korean text-to-speech cost

Set your monthly generated speech volume to estimate your Soniox API cost for text-to-speech.

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Stop overpaying for Korean speech AI

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1,000 hours of speech / month

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Based on public pay-as-you-go pricing. Enterprise discounts and committed-use contracts may differ. Some providers charge separately for certain features. The calculator uses the public price for the provider configuration that most closely matches Soniox.

Speech infrastructure for massive scale

Soniox Text-to-Speech API performance and reliability

Build on one API and deploy in your region

Use the same models and API everywhere, with in-region processing to meet latency, data residency, and regulatory requirements.

Available: US, EU, Japan, India
Coming soon: Korea, Australia, Canada, Saudi Arabia, UK, Brazil

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Soniox Text-to-Speech API performance and reliability

Run mission-critical systems with confidence

  • 99.9% uptime
    Production-hardened infrastructure with monitoring and redundancy.
  • low-latency streaming
    Process speech in real time with low latency for responsive voice applications.
  • Priority support
    Severity-based incident response with direct access to the Soniox team.
Onvego uses Soniox Text-to-Speech API for multilingual voice experiences

"Before Soniox, our international users always had a noticeably different experience. Now accuracy and responsiveness match across all regions…it feels like one system instead of five."

Alon Yair CTO of Onvego

Korean text-to-speech use cases

Soniox TTS is built for Korean voice applications where latency, accuracy, and reliability matter as much as voice quality.

Voice agents

Deliver fast, natural Korean spoken responses for voice agents that need to feel real-time, interruption-friendly, and production-ready.

Enterprise IVR and customer support

Modernize Korean customer interactions with fast, high-fidelity voice. Speak account data, verification codes, and addresses accurately at scale.

High-stakes structured speech

Read phone numbers, emails, addresses, IDs, PINs, and account data exactly as written in Korean, without scrambled digits or letters.

Multilingual communication

Power live multilingual experiences with Korean speech generation. Handle language switching mid-sentence and pronounce foreign words and names correctly.

Accessibility and assistive voice tools

Create dependable Korean voice experiences for reading assistants, communication tools, and accessibility products.

Media and content production

Generate Korean voiceovers, narration, and audio content at scale, with accurate pronunciation of names and technical terms.

Start generating natural speech from ~$0.70 per hour of generated audio.

Privacy and compliance, built right in

Never stored, never saved.

Audio stays in memory, everything is processed in real-time.

Built for privacy-critical use cases.

Adhering to leading global security, privacy, and compliance standards.

Trusted where privacy matters most.

Used in industries where speech is sensitive, from healthcare to enterprise.

Soniox is Soc 2 Type 2 compliant
Soniox is ISO 27001:2022 compliant
Soniox is HIPAA compliant
Soniox is GDPR compliant
SOC 2 Type 2 · ISO/IEC 27001:2022 · HIPAA · GDPR

Frequently asked questions

Does Soniox support text-to-speech for Korean?
Yes. Soniox provides high-fidelity text-to-speech for Korean with native-speaker fluency, accurate pronunciation, and support for streaming output.
How does Soniox TTS handle alphanumerics in Korean?
Soniox TTS renders phone numbers, email addresses, IDs, PINs, and codes exactly as written when generating Korean speech, without scrambled digits or dropped characters.
Can Soniox TTS handle mixed-language text with Korean?
Yes. Soniox TTS supports seamless language switching mid-sentence, speaking mixed Korean text naturally with the correct accent and flow for each language segment.
How does Soniox TTS pronounce names and foreign words in Korean?
Soniox TTS handles person names, place names, brand names, and borrowed words with the pronunciation Korean speakers expect, even when they come from a different language.
Is Soniox TTS fast enough for real-time Korean voice agents?
Yes. Soniox TTS supports streaming speech generation, starting Korean audio output before the full sentence is available. This enables low-latency responses for voice agents and live systems.
Where is Korean speech data processed and stored?
Soniox processes and stores speech data entirely within your selected region, using identical models and APIs globally. This supports data residency, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
Is Soniox TTS suitable for production Korean workloads?
Yes. Soniox TTS is built for high-concurrency production environments, offering:
- 99.9% uptime
- low-latency streaming
- Production-hardened infrastructure
- Priority enterprise support
How do I get started?
You can explore the API documentation to start building immediately, or contact Soniox for production and enterprise deployments.
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