if_sara
Kokoro Italian female, if_sara. Assured, carrier-grade.
Language: Italian
Country: Italy
Gender: Female
Accent: Italian
Italian TTS API Voices
Generate lifelike Italian speech across a wide range of voices and every major accent, over carrier-grade infrastructure built for voice agents and IVR.
Pay as you go from ~$3 per 1M characters, no commitment
Built on the same infrastructure thousands of teams ship voice on
14,000+
companies build on Telnyx
100+
languages & dialects
1,300+
voices, one API
<500ms
end-to-end latency
Italian voices & accents
Italian voices across every major regional accent. Hear them below, or browse the full catalog by country.
Call the Italian TTS API
Generate Italian audio in one request. OpenAI-SDK compatible, with streaming for real-time apps.
cURL
curl -X POST https://api.telnyx.com/v2/text-to-speech/speech \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TELNYX_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"voice": "Telnyx.NaturalHD.it-IT-1",
"text": "La sua ricetta è pronta per il ritiro in farmacia."
}' --output sample.mp3Node
import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.TELNYX_API_KEY,
baseURL: "https://api.telnyx.com/v2",
});
const audio = await client.audio.speech.create({
model: "Telnyx.NaturalHD",
voice: "it-IT-1",
input: "La sua ricetta è pronta per il ritiro in farmacia.",
});Python
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["TELNYX_API_KEY"],
base_url="https://api.telnyx.com/v2",
)
audio = client.audio.speech.create(
model="Telnyx.NaturalHD",
voice="it-IT-1",
input="La sua ricetta è pronta per il ritiro in farmacia.",
)Voice IDs follow the Telnyx.<Tier>.<Voice> convention, so you can swap the voice without touching the rest of your code.
Read the TTS docsWhat teams build with Italian TTS
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E-learning
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Audiobooks
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Video voiceover & dubbing
Localize content into Italian at scale with named native voices.
Accessibility
Italian screen-reading and read-aloud for inclusive products.
Browse all Italian voices by country
Infrastructure for TTS Library, courtesy of Telnyx
The delivery path, model breadth, low-latency pipeline, and economics behind every voice above.
The stack quality Italian TTS needs
01
Delivery path
24 kHz audio has to survive the phone network. Without a carrier-grade delivery path it gets crushed to 8 kHz, throwing away the quality the model produced. Own the delivery, or the voice degrades before anyone hears it.
02
Model layer
No single engine wins every language, accent, and budget. Front many models (Telnyx, AWS Polly, Rime, Inworld, ElevenLabs, and more) behind one API so you can swap by config instead of re-integrating each time.
03
Real-time pipeline
For voice agents and IVR, TTS alone isn't enough: TTS, STT, LLM, SIP and numbers belong in one path under ~500ms end-to-end, or the back-and-forth feels laggy and robotic.
04
Economics
Predictable per-character, pay-as-you-go pricing, no seats, minimums, or surprise overage tiers, is what keeps quality voice affordable once you scale past a demo.
Enterprise-grade trust
SOC 2 Type IIHIPAAPCI DSSGDPRISO 27001 / 27701STIR/SHAKEN A-level
Owned infrastructure in 20+ countries, PSTN reach in 100+ countries, used by 14,000+ companies.
Italian TTS pricing
From ~$3 per 1M charactersPay as you go. No commitment, no seats.
| Model | Per character | Per 1M characters |
|---|---|---|
| Telnyx (standard) | $0.000003 / char | ~$3 / 1M chars |
| Telnyx HD | $0.000048 / char | ~$48 / 1M chars |
| Bring-your-own (ElevenLabs, Azure) | Your provider's rate | Billed through Telnyx |
Qualifying startups can apply to the Telnyx startups program for up to $20K in credits. Volume discounts available on the Growth Plan.
Start buildingStart building with Italian TTS
Italian voices, carrier-grade delivery, from ~$3 per 1M characters.
Pay as you go. No commitment. Business email required.
Italian text to speech FAQ
Italian text to speech (TTS) converts written Italian into natural-sounding spoken audio using AI voices. Telnyx exposes Italian voices through one API for apps, IVR, and voice agents.
Italian phonology and prosody
Seven vowels, no schwa
Italian runs on seven stable vowel phonemes[1]: /i e ɛ a ɔ o u/: each pronounced clearly regardless of position in the word. English leans on a much larger, messier inventory and crushes unstressed vowels into schwa /ə/[2], the sound in "sofa" and "about." Italian has no schwa at all: an unstressed /a/ still sounds like /a/. A word like "banana" keeps three full, distinct vowels[3] where English would reduce two of them. TTS trained on English reduction patterns will either flatten Italian vowels that should stay open or insert schwas that don't exist. Accurate synthesis requires models built for this vowel stability, running co-located with the audio pipeline so no fidelity is lost in transit.
Every syllable gets its time
Italian is syllable-timed[1]: syllables arrive at roughly equal intervals, giving the language its even, rapid-fire cadence. English is stress-timed: it compresses unstressed syllables[2] between beats, stretching some and swallowing others. In Italian, stress usually falls on the penultimate syllable[3], and when it doesn't, written accents mark the exception (e.g., "citta"). A synthesis engine that imposes English-style timing on Italian output will drag stressed syllables and clip unstressed ones, destroying the rhythm native speakers expect. Getting duration right at this level means inference and audio generation need to happen in the same place, with no handoff latency between providers.
Pitch that draws the whole contour
Italian intonation uses wider pitch movements[1] than English, with pronounced rises and falls that give it a reputation for sounding musical. English distributes pitch more narrowly and ties it to information structure: marking what's new versus given[2]. Italian tends to place emphatic pitch shifts toward phrase endings[3], and both the range and the anchor points differ enough that applying English prosodic templates makes Italian output sound flat or foreign. Reproducing these contours faithfully requires speech infrastructure where synthesis and delivery share the same compute: no inter-provider hops degrading the pitch signal before it reaches the listener.