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

How to convert Belgian French 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 French voices

For Belgian French you can choose between these voices: Isabelle. All of them are Amazon Polly voices and pronounce your text with a native Belgian French 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 French language:

Belgian French is the French spoken in Wallonia, the southern part of Belgium, and by the majority of the inhabitants of Brussels. About four and a half million people speak it as their first language, and French is one of the three official languages of Belgium, next to Dutch and German.

The written standard is the same as in France, and Belgian French is easy to understand for anyone who knows French. The best known difference is the counting: Belgians say septante for 70 and nonante for 90 instead of soixante-dix and quatre-vingt-dix, which makes numbers much easier to learn. The same words are used in Switzerland, where huitante for 80 is also common.

Vocabulary has its own Belgian touches: a déjeuner is breakfast, the dîner is lunch and the souper is dinner, a kot is a student room, une drache is a heavy rain shower and s'il vous plaît is also used when handing something over. Many words come from contact with Dutch and the Walloon dialects.

The accent is usually slightly slower than Parisian French, with some vowels pronounced longer and the w often spoken as in English, for example in wagon. Regional languages such as Walloon and Picard are still known in parts of Wallonia, although they are spoken mostly by older people.

A Belgian French voice is a good choice for material aimed at Belgian listeners, for learners who live or work in Brussels, the capital of the European Union, and for anyone who wants to get used to the Belgian accent and vocabulary.

Supported voice languages: