Google Cloud Text-to-Speech

Google Cloud Text-to-Speech is Google's speech API, with standard and WaveNet voices, the newer Chirp high-definition voices, instant custom voices from a short sample, and Gemini-based synthesis that takes style instructions in plain text, sold per million characters. For Arabic it offers exactly one locale across its standard, WaveNet and Chirp catalogues: ar-XA, which Google documents as Modern Standard Arabic and labels "Arabic (Generic)". No Saudi, Gulf or country-labelled Arabic voice exists in those tiers. The only regional Arabic is Egyptian, generally available in Gemini-TTS as of October 2026, with a "World" Arabic in preview. The service has no Middle East endpoint; requests from Riyadh are processed in the United States, Europe or Asia. Custom voices need a consent recording read from Google's fixed Arabic script. Pricing in November 2026: $4 per million characters for standard and WaveNet voices, $30 for Chirp high-definition voices, $60 for instant custom voices, with free monthly quotas on the first two.