Bayan

Voice format: Telnyx.Bayan.<speaker> Arabic voice model, 113 speakers across 13 dialects (Modern Standard Arabic plus Egyptian, Emirati, Saudi, Jordanian, Iraqi, Lebanese, Syrian, Palestinian, Kuwaiti, Bahraini, Qatari, and Omani), plus a set of English speakers. Native audio is 16kHz.

Voice Samples

Voice	Dialect	Gender
`Telnyx.Bayan.Ahmed`	Egyptian	Male
`Telnyx.Bayan.Alia`	Emirati	Female
`Telnyx.Bayan.Lana`	Jordanian	Female
`Telnyx.Bayan.Hind`	Qatari	Female

Browse the full 113-speaker catalogue via the Voices API.

WebSocket

Query Parameters

wss://api.telnyx.com/v2/text-to-speech/speech?voice=Telnyx.Bayan.Ahmed

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
`audio_format`	string	`mp3`	`mp3`, `linear16`, `wav`.
`sample_rate`	integer	`16000`	Only `16000` (native) is supported.

Voice Settings

None. The init frame only needs {"text": " "}.

REST API

Fields

Field	Type	Default	Description
`language`	string	Speaker’s dialect	Language/dialect hint.
`response_format`	string	native	`pcm`, `wav`, `mp3`.
`sampling_rate`	integer	`16000`	Only `16000` (native) is supported.
`output_type`	string	`binary_output`	`binary_output`, `base64_output`, or `audio_id`.

Response

Default (binary_output): chunked audio bytes, 16kHz signed 16-bit LE mono (native PCM, transcoded to MP3/WAV on request). With output_type: "base64_output": JSON with base64-encoded audio. With output_type: "audio_id": JSON with an audio_url for deferred retrieval.

sampling_rate/sample_rate values other than 16000 are rejected with a 400 error — Bayan only supports its native rate.

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