Nastaliq, rendered properly
AI voice, video and dubbing in Urdu
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Most AI video tools that claim Urdu support render it in Naskh, because Naskh is what a default Arabic font gives you. To an Urdu reader that looks roughly the way a condensed all-caps grotesque looks to an English reader — legible, and obviously not what the language is written in. ReVidGen letters Urdu in Nastaliq across boards, captions and burned-in subtitles.
What works in Urdu
- Captions and subtitles
- Noto Nastaliq Urdu
- Whiteboard lettering
- Drawn stroke by stroke in Nastaliq
- Text-to-speech
- Yes, with voice cloning
- Dubbing
- Into and out of Urdu, speaker voices preserved
Why Nastaliq is hard, and why it matters
Nastaliq cascades: each word slopes down and to the left, so letters do not sit on a shared baseline the way Latin or Naskh do. Layout engines that assume a flat baseline either clip the descenders or overlap the line below. Handling it means giving the script vertical room it does not ask for in any other language and shaping every word as a unit. That work is done here — the whiteboard renderer accounts for the cascade explicitly, and the worker image fails to build if fontconfig substitutes a different family for Noto Nastaliq Urdu.
Pakistani regional languages too
Urdu is rarely the only language a Pakistani project needs. The voice engine also carries Sindhi and three regional Pashto variants, so a single subscription covers a multilingual rollout rather than forcing a second vendor for the languages nobody else supports.
Long-form, at a price that works locally
Urdu-language education and religious content runs long — lectures, courses, full lessons. Per-minute pricing from the global incumbents makes an hour of narrated Urdu video prohibitively expensive. Credits are pooled and priced for volume, so length is a content decision rather than a budget one.
Studios that work in Urdu
Urdu is one of 646 languages the voice engine accepts, and 116 available for narration and captions across the studios. See other languages.
Common questions
- Do the captions really render in Nastaliq?
- Yes. Captions, whiteboard lettering and burned-in dubbing subtitles all resolve to Noto Nastaliq Urdu. The whiteboard worker image verifies this at build time with fc-match and refuses to build if the font is missing, because a silent fallback to Naskh is the kind of failure nobody notices until a customer complains.
- Can I clone an Urdu voice?
- Yes — voice cloning works in Urdu as in any other supported language, and clones are unlimited on paid plans.
- Can I dub an English video into Urdu?
- Yes. Dubbing Studio separates vocals from music, translates each speaker, and re-voices them in Urdu using voices cloned from their own audio, refitted to the original timing.