Narakeet Review: An Honest Test of the Script-to-Video Voiceover Tool

What Narakeet actually is

Narakeet is built by Video Puppet Limited, a company based in Woking in the UK. It is not a plain text-to-speech box, and that distinction matters before you compare it with anything else. The core job it sells is turning material you already have (a script, an SRT or VTT subtitle file, a Word or ePub document, or a PowerPoint, Google Slides, or Keynote deck with the narration typed into the presenter notes) into a finished narrated video. Plain audio is there too, as MP3 or WAV downloads, but video is the headline act. It also generates subtitle files from your script and can burn captions into the video, and it can switch narrators mid-document, which helps with lessons and dialogues.

The voice library is the other headline. Narakeet's marketing pages say "900 voices in 100 languages," but its own official voices index currently lists 946 voices across 112 languages and regional accents. The real library is bigger than the headline claim, which is unusual. Marketing usually rounds up, not down.

How we tested it

We ran three tests on the free tier on November 8, 2026, without registering an account. Narakeet lets you use its text-to-speech generator 20 times without signing up, and it states on its own site that there is no watermark burned into the free audio. So we pasted a script, picked a voice, created the audio, and downloaded the MP3, exactly the way a first-time visitor would. Then we did it twice more with Hindi, once typed the way many people in India actually type it, in Roman letters, and once in proper Devanagari script. What follows is what we heard, including the parts that did not work.

Test 1: English narration came out clean

For the first test we used a short bakery narration and an American English voice called Raymond. The result was a short MP3 that matched the script exactly, word for word. There was no watermark, no spoken announcement, and no branding added anywhere in the file. That matters because a lot of "free" voice tools stamp their name on the output or cut you off mid-test. Narakeet did neither. If your only question is whether the free test is real, it is.

Tests 2 and 3: Hindi depends on the script you type

The second test used a Hindi voice called Amitabh with a mixed line: an English opening, a Hindi middle typed in Roman letters, and an English close. The English parts came through fine, and the Hindi in the middle did not. It came out garbled enough that the key phrase was hard to make out. If you are someone who types Hindi in Roman letters all day (and plenty of people do), that matters, and you should know about it before you plan a project around it. Narakeet's founder told us after publication that this is a deliberate product limit, not a bug: Romanized Hindi transliteration is not supported, and Hindi text needs to be in Devanagari script. There is a proper workaround for mixed text, though. Narakeet's polyglot voices speak multiple languages, so a script that moves between English and Hindi belongs in one of those voices. The founder also points out that polyglot voices keep the output consistent across Hindi and other Indian languages, so the voice sounds the same throughout.

So we ran the same voice again with the Hindi written in full Devanagari script. This time the Hindi came through properly: the greeting was clear, and the key phrase (ताज़ा अनाज से आटा कैसे बनता है) was recognizably rendered as Hindi. The lesson is practical, not technical. Narakeet's Hindi voices want real Hindi script. Feed them Roman-letter Hindi and the result falls apart; feed them Devanagari and they do their job.

Hear the tests yourself: the English narration (Raymond), the Hindi test typed in Roman letters (Amitabh), and the same voice reading Hindi in Devanagari (Amitabh) — all three made on Narakeet's free tier, exactly as described above.

One more count worth checking before you trust any voice tool: Hindi voices. Narakeet's official index lists 20 Hindi voices by name, including Amitabh, Kareena, and Aditi. But its Hindi marketing page claims 128 Hindi voices, and at first we could not reconcile the two numbers. After we published, Narakeet's founder, Gojko Adzic, wrote to us and explained the count: the 128 is made up of those 20 Hindi-only voices plus more than 100 polyglot voices that also speak Hindi alongside other languages. So both numbers are real; they are just counting different things. The marketing page itself never spells this out, which is why the two figures looked contradictory when we first compared them.

What the free tier really gives you

Here is the free tier, as listed in Narakeet's own pricing comparison table: 20 conversions, audio scripts up to 1 KB, video scripts up to 10 KB, up to 30 scenes per video, and uploads up to 10 MB. There is no API access, no SSML, and no batch creation on the free tier. One honest footnote from their own site: the video-maker how-to page says you can create 10 videos free, while the rest of the site talks about 20 free conversions. Small inconsistency, but you will hit one limit or the other pretty quickly either way.

The bigger limit is not size, it is rights. Narakeet's usage-rights page is plain about it: content made on a free account can only be used for personal and evaluation purposes. Commercial use is not allowed on free output. So the free tier is a proper test drive, not a production tool. Test your script, your voice, and your workflow on it freely, but do not publish the result in a monetized video or a client project.

What it costs when you pay

Narakeet does not run on subscriptions. You buy one-time prepaid credits, and the credits never expire. The entry package is $6 for 30 minutes of output, which works out to $0.20 per minute, and billing runs in one-second increments of finished audio or video. We did not verify the full ladder of larger packs, so we are not listing prices we have not seen on their official pages. Unused credits can be refunded within 14 days, according to the same pricing page.

Any paid purchase turns the account into a commercial account, and that is where the rights change: Narakeet's usage-rights page says commercial use is allowed for anything you create on a commercial account, with no ongoing royalties and no usage restrictions. That is a clean deal, and it is the real product. The free tier exists so you can check the voices before you pay the six dollars.

Where Narakeet fits, and where we fit

People will ask how this compares to our own tool, so here is the honest version. Narakeet and TextToSpeechH do different jobs. Narakeet takes a script or a slide deck and produces a narrated video, with scenes, captions, and the option to switch voices mid-document. TextToSpeechH is a free text-to-speech tool that runs instantly in your browser: paste text, hear it read aloud, download the audio. If you need a voiceover for a presentation or a training video and you do not want to record your own voice, Narakeet is built for that job. If you just need text read aloud right now, a video production tool is more machinery than the job needs. Neither of those sentences is a criticism of either tool.

Two gaps are worth knowing before you commit. The developer route is paywalled: the API exists, but only for commercial accounts, so there is no free way to automate Narakeet into your own pipeline. And once you make a video, download it promptly: Narakeet's own how-to page warns that download links for finished videos expire after 24 hours.

The bottom line

Narakeet passed the test that matters most: its free tier is a real test, not a trap. Twenty watermark-free conversions with no sign-up is generous, the English narration was clean, and Hindi worked properly once we typed it in Devanagari. The honest caveats are just as clear: Roman-script Hindi is not supported (a deliberate limit, as the founder confirmed to us), the free licence is personal use only, and the 128 Hindi voices on their marketing page means 20 Hindi-only voices plus 100+ polyglot voices that also speak Hindi. If you make lessons, explainers, or slide videos and hate recording your own voice, Narakeet is worth the free test, and the $6 entry pack is a fair price for proper commercial rights. If you only need words read aloud, keep it simple and use a plain text-to-speech tool.