Bayan

Telnyx Bayan is an Arabic text-to-speech model covering 13 dialects plus English, ideal for Arabic-language voice agents on the Telnyx TTS API.

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	Sample
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.

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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.