Dutch Text to Speech
Turn Dutch text into natural speech with AI voices. 2 voices. Free, no signup — download as MP3 or WAV.
Wrap your text in SSML tags for precise control:
<speak><prosody rate="slow">Slow speech</prosody></speak>
Tags the selected model understands — click to drop one into your text where it happens:
This model reads plain text, so inline tags are ignored. For tag-based emotion, switch to an expressive model like Orpheus or Bark.
Define custom pronunciations (word = pronunciation):
About Dutch text to speech
Dutch text-to-speech must master a set of guttural and diphthong sounds that have no close English equivalent: the hard "g" and "ch" fricatives, and the rolling diphthongs in "ui", "ij", and "eui". The same orthography is shared by two main standards — Netherlands Dutch and Belgian Flemish — which differ noticeably in rhythm and the realization of the "g", so a voice trained on one sounds foreign to the other. Dutch also forms long compound nouns and uses many spelling-rule vowel doublings (aa, ee, oo) that signal length, all of which the engine must parse for correct stress. The frequent assimilation and final-devoicing at word boundaries add a further layer the synthesizer has to model to avoid a clipped, list-like delivery.
Sample — Nederlands
“Met tekst-naar-spraak laat je de computer Nederlandse teksten voorlezen met een natuurlijke, heldere stem.”
- Native name
- Nederlands
- Speakers
- ~25 million native speakers
- Language family
- West Germanic (Indo-European)
- Script
- Latin
- Spoken in
- Netherlands, Belgium (Flanders), Suriname, Caribbean
