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# Built a bilingual TTS for voice agents, looking for honest feedback on the Arabic

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**Published:** July 6, 2026  
**Original:** https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1up0vl2/built_a_bilingual_tts_for_voice_agents_looking/  

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- [Overview](#overview)

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## Overview

Sharing something I built and genuinely want feedback on, not a launch. Banter 1 is a text to speech model focused on sounding natural in Arabic and English , including switching between them in one sentence without robotic seams. Demo: https://theclevr.com My reason for building it: Arabic has been a blind spot in AI voice for a long time. A lot of tools treat English as the main event and everything else as a bolt on, so the prosody and pronunciation feel mechanical. Where I want the honest ta

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