Free Text-To-Speech and Text-to-MP3 for Belgian Dutch

How to convert Belgian Dutch text to MP3

1. Type or paste your text into the box above (up to 3,000 characters per day for free).
2. Choose a voice from the list.
3. Click Read to listen in your browser, or Download as MP3 to save the audio file.

No account, no app and no AWS account are needed. Longer texts are processed in the background; please keep the page open until the audio is ready.

Free limit and premium plans

The free converter allows 3,000 characters per day (about 375 words). Your usage today is shown below the converter and resets every day.

Need more? Premium plans range from a 24-hour pass to monthly and yearly plans with up to 10 million characters. Every yearly plan includes access to the text-to-speech API.

Commercial use of the MP3 files

You may use the MP3 files created with ttsMP3 in commercial and non-commercial projects – for example YouTube voiceovers, podcasts, presentations, e-learning courses, websites and apps. This applies to free and paid usage, and you do not have to credit ttsMP3 (a mention is always appreciated). See commercial use of text to speech for details.

Belgian Dutch voices

For Belgian Dutch you can choose between these voices: Lisa. All of them are Amazon Polly voices and pronounce your text with a native Belgian Dutch accent. In total ttsMP3 offers 74 regular voices in 41 languages and accents.

Pauses, emphasis, speed and pitch (SSML)

You can control the speech with SSML tags directly in your text. Here are the most useful ones:

Add a break

Mary had a little lamb <break time="1s"/> Whose fleece was white as snow.

Emphasizing words

I already told you I <emphasis level="strong">really like</emphasis> that person.

Speed

For dramatic purposes, you might wish to <prosody rate="slow">slow down the speaking rate of your text.</prosody>
Or if you are in a hurry <prosody rate="fast">you may want to speed it up a bit.</prosody>

Pitch

Do you like synthesized speech <prosody pitch="high">with a pitch that is higher than normal?</prosody>
Or do you prefer your speech <prosody pitch="-20%">with a somewhat lower pitch?</prosody>

Whisper

<amazon:effect name="whispered">If you make any noise,</amazon:effect> she said, <amazon:effect name="whispered">they will hear us.</amazon:effect>

Conversations

You can switch between speakers within one text:

[speaker:Brian] Hello Emma
[speaker:Emma] Hey Brian
[speaker:Brian] How are you doing?
[speaker:Emma] I am fine. May I invite you to a cup of tea?

Please remove diacritical signs from the speaker names: Léa = Lea, Penélope = Penelope.

Need more effects? See our SSML guide with examples or the Amazon SSML tags for Amazon Polly.

Facts about the Belgian Dutch language:

Belgian Dutch, often called Flemish, is the Dutch spoken in Flanders, the northern part of Belgium, and in Brussels. With about six and a half million native speakers it is the most widely spoken language in Belgium, next to French and German.

Belgian Dutch and the Dutch of the Netherlands share the same standard language and spelling. The official rules are set together by the Nederlandse Taalunie, an organisation founded by both countries, so written texts can be read in the same way on both sides of the border.

The spoken language, however, sounds noticeably different. Flemish speakers pronounce the g softer, the r is often rolled and the overall melody is calmer than in the Netherlands. Vocabulary differs too: in Flanders people say goesting for appetite or desire, schoon for beautiful, frigo for fridge, gsm for mobile phone and amai to express surprise. Speakers also use the forms ge and gij in informal speech instead of je and jij.

Flanders has a strong tradition of regional dialects, such as West Flemish, Antwerp and Limburg dialects. In daily life many people use an in-between variety known as tussentaal, while the standard language is used in schools, newspapers and on the public broadcaster VRT.

Listening to a Belgian Dutch voice helps learners understand Flemish television, radio and colleagues, and it is the natural choice for videos, e-learning and announcements aimed at an audience in Flanders.

Supported voice languages: