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Chinese AI Voices
Chinese audio drama is an enormous, mature market with a professional voice-acting industry behind it. That raises the bar rather than lowering it, and it is why we would rather ship this late than ship it thin.
Not available yet. There are no Chinese (Simplified) voices in this release. This page exists to say what is planned and what it has to get right, not to sell you something that does not exist.
The bar is high here
Chinese audio drama — 广播剧 — is a commercial format with established studios, known voice actors and a paying audience. Listeners are accustomed to professional multi-voice production, which means a synthetic cast is judged against a much higher reference than in markets where audio drama is a hobbyist format.
That does not make it impossible; it makes thin implementations pointless. A two-voice Chinese release would serve nobody.
Tone and polyphonic characters
Tone is phonemic, and polyphonic characters — the same character read differently depending on context — are common, particularly in names. Both need to be correct by default and correctable by hand, because fiction is full of invented and archaic names where automatic reading fails.
This is the same class of problem as Japanese kanji readings, and the same solution applies: a per-project pronunciation list that overrides the default reading everywhere it appears.
What to do in the meantime
- Use English today
The English library is complete and covers international releases.
- Keep lines atomic
One utterance per line makes a later Chinese track straightforward to add.
- Collect your name readings early
For any project with invented names, a reading list is the first thing a Chinese production will need.
- Plan translation as authorship
Chinese drama dialogue has its own register conventions; a literal translation reads as translated.
- Tell us what would actually be useful
Cast size and register coverage matter more than voice count.
Frequently asked questions
Is Cantonese planned?
It would be a separate variant with its own voices rather than a setting. No commitment yet.
When is Mandarin coming?
It is on the roadmap after the first group. The high professional baseline in this market means we would rather be late than thin.
Can I use this for 广播剧 now?
Not in Chinese. Some producers use it for English-language versions of Chinese-origin work, which is a real use case today.
How will polyphonic characters be handled?
With a per-project reading list that overrides defaults, the same mechanism as English pronunciation overrides but doing considerably more work.
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