Murf AI for Southeast Asian Languages: Voices and Plans Checked November 2026
This post sets out what Murf lists for Southeast Asian voiceover today, using Murf's own Voice Library, API documentation, pricing and language pages as opened on 4 November 2026. Falcon 2.1, Murf's newest voice model, is the context for the voice counts below. No audio was generated or listened to, so it is a catalogue and plan check, not a quality review.
What does Murf's changelog say about Falcon 2.1 and these languages?
Murf's API changelog gives dated entries. The ones that matter for Southeast Asian voiceover:
- 19 October 2026: Falcon 2.1 launched on the streaming and WebSocket endpoints. The entry lists "more languages and voices" in the Voice Library, lower time to first spoken word, and pronunciation control through inline IPA or a pronunciation dictionary. It does not name languages, so it cannot date the arrival of any single Southeast Asian language.
- 5 October 2026: Gen2 streaming was decommissioned. Gen2 voices remain available for non-streaming synthesis. If you built a voice agent on Gen2 streaming, that is the migration note.
- 19 September 2025: 14 languages were added to the API, and the list includes Malay, Filipino, Thai and Vietnamese. This is the earliest dated entry naming Thai.
The changelog covers the API only. It does not say when Murf AI's web pages for Thai, Malay and Filipino text to speech went live, or when the Studio editor gained each language.
Which Southeast Asian languages does Murf list today?
The Falcon 2.1 section of Murf's Voice Library has a separate table for each of these:
| Language | Voices listed under that language |
|---|---|
| Indonesian | Diya, Javier, Pooja (3) |
| Vietnamese | Bjorn, Diya, Jiao, Pooja (4) |
| Malay | Carlos, Diya, Javier, Pooja (4) |
| Tagalog (Philippines) | Erano, Carlos, Heidi (3) |
| Thai | Carlos (1) |
Two things stand out. Thai has a single listed voice, and the same voice name, Carlos, also appears under Malay and Tagalog. The library describes these as multilingual voices that can speak locales other than their base language. We did not listen to them, so we cannot say how a Thai line from Carlos compares with a Thai-first voice.
Murf's own marketing pages for Thai, Malay, Filipino, Vietnamese and Indonesian text to speech all exist and describe the product in similar terms. They also show a shared voice gallery whose language filter lists no Thai, Malay, Filipino or Vietnamese entries, so the gallery does not settle how many native voices there are. The Voice Library table is the more specific source.
For Indonesian, Murf's page says its Speech Gen 2 model "is trained for Indonesian" and handles loanwords from Dutch, Arabic and English and prefixes such as me-, pe- and ber-. We did not find comparable statements on the Thai, Malay or Filipino pages.
What do the Studio plans include?
Studio is the browser editor for scripts, voices and downloads. Its plans are Free, Creator, Business and Enterprise. We could not load the rendered pricing page cleanly on 4 November 2026, so we do not quote plan prices or allowances here: check murf.ai/pricing, including the yearly and monthly toggle, before you decide. In our reading, the free plan limits downloads and commercial use, and paid plans add commercial rights, so confirm both on the page for your use.
There is a mismatch worth knowing about. The Studio pricing page's footer list of supported text-to-speech languages includes Indonesian but not Thai, Vietnamese, Malay or Filipino, while the language pages and the API documentation list all five. Page footers go stale, so this may be nothing, but it means you should not assume that every API language is selectable in your Studio plan. Test your language in the free tier before paying.
How does API pricing work for developers?
The API pricing page shows a pay-as-you-go model with purchased credit that does not expire:
- Falcon 2.1 text to speech: USD 0.01 per 1,000 characters, aimed at real-time voice agents.
- Gen2 text to speech: USD 0.03 per 1,000 characters.
- Free trial: USD 10 of credit for API calls, no credit card required.
- Concurrency: the rate-limit documentation lists 5 concurrent requests on US-East and 2 on global and regional endpoints for Falcon 2.1 on both the free tier and pay as you go. Enterprise is custom, up to 10,000.
Thai text is not the same length per character as English, so the per-character rate does not translate directly into minutes of audio. Run a sample script through the free credit and read the bill.
What about dubbing and video?
Murf has a separate Dub product. Its pricing page lists a free plan with 100 credits, then pay as you go from USD 0.25 per credit, at 2 credits per minute per dubbed language. That works out to USD 0.50 per minute per language on the pay-as-you-go rate.
The dubbing API documentation lists 26 destination languages for automated dubbing. Of the Southeast Asian languages, only Indonesian appears; Thai, Vietnamese, Malay and Filipino do not. Source languages are a separate list that includes no Southeast Asian language either. If you need to dub video into Thai or Vietnamese, check the Dub product itself, because we could only verify the API's list.
Murf's plans are built around audio. We did not find an avatar-presenter product on its pricing page.
Who should pick Murf, and who should not?
Murf is a reasonable candidate if:
- You produce Indonesian or Vietnamese narration for training, explainer or ad videos and want a browser editor with pronunciation controls.
- You are a developer who wants a low per-character streaming price for a voice agent and can live with the concurrency limits at the lower tiers.
- You need commercial rights on a paid Studio plan (check the pricing page for the current entry price).
Look elsewhere, or test hard first, if:
- Thai is your main language. One listed Falcon 2.1 voice is thin if you need several characters, ages or tones. Compare against vendors that list Thai-first coverage; our profiles of ElevenLabs and Synthesia record Thai among their languages, and we have a separate ElevenLabs voice-agent guide for Thai, Vietnamese and Indonesian.
- Vietnamese call-centre or voicebot work is the job. Vbee is a Vietnam-based vendor built around Vietnamese voice. Murf's Falcon 2.1 library lists four Vietnamese voices, and we did not test accents.
- You need dubbing into Thai, Vietnamese, Malay or Filipino from the API. The documented destination list does not include them.
- You need a talking presenter on screen. That is avatar video, and we found none on Murf's pricing page; Synthesia is built for it.
- You need a hard guarantee of regional accent. Neither the library nor the language pages state dialect coverage, for example Northern Thai.
We make no quantitative claim about Murf against ElevenLabs or any other vendor, because no comparative test was run.
What should you do before paying?
- Open the free Studio, paste a real script of your own in your target language, and listen to every voice offered for it.
- Check that the language you need appears in the Studio voice picker, not only on the marketing page.
- Put your brand names and product terms through the pronunciation controls. Murf's Falcon 2.1 notes say exact pronunciation is available through IPA or a dictionary on the API, and the Studio plans list a "Change Pronunciations" feature.
- If you use the API, test Thai, Malay or Tagalog with the free USD 10 credit before writing a production integration.
- Re-check the plan limits on the pricing page.
For wider context on the voice tooling market, see our Southeast Asia voice AI stack and the dubbing and localization guide for SEA content creators. Murf's own profile is at /tools/murf-ai.