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Dutch Text to Speech and AI Voice Generator
Dutch text to speech with voices from the Netherlands: paste or type your Dutch text and press Play to hear how it sounds.
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Voice
Edit the text, pick a voice and press Play. Listen as often as you like before you sign up. Write the number one as één with accents, so the voice stresses it and does not read it as the article een.
20 voices
Dutch text to speech voices, male and female
Listen2It has 20 Dutch voices, 8 male and 12 female. Press Use this voice to load one into the tool. Filter by gender.
Gender
Maarten
Colette
Beatrix
Bram
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Dutch treats ij as a single letter, so a word that starts with it capitalises both: IJsselmeer, IJmuiden. A trema shows where one vowel ends and the next begins, as in ruïne, België and coördinator. Accents can add stress: één is one and een is a, vóór means before and voor can mean for. Keep these marks when you paste text from another tool.
Compound nouns are written as one word, as in ziektekostenverzekering, and voices read them well. Short forms such as 's avonds, 's morgens, m'n and z'n are normal in speech-like scripts. Plurals of words ending in a long vowel take an apostrophe: auto's, menu's, foto's. English verbs get Dutch endings, such as gedownload or geüpdatet, and the pronunciation dictionary can fix one that sounds off.
Times can trip up English writers. Half acht means half past seven, not half past eight, so write 19.30 or 19:30 when the hour matters. Decimals take a comma (2,5) and thousands a point (10.000). Dates go day first with the month in lower case, as in 27 april. Postcodes such as 1012 AB are worth a preview before you publish.
What people make with Dutch voice over
Koningsdag and Sinterklaas campaigns
Voice shop and social messages for King's Day or the weeks before Sinterklaas, then change the dates and offers for next year.
Canal and museum tours
Narrate boat tours in Amsterdam or Utrecht and galleries across the country, and regenerate one stop when a route changes.
BHV and compliance training
Turn in-house emergency response refreshers, privacy rules and onboarding into narration, with one steady voice across every lesson.
Videos for webshops
Add Dutch narration to product clips and how-to videos for an online store, and update a line when a product changes.
Three steps
How to convert Dutch text to speech in three steps
Add your script
Type or paste Dutch text, or import a .txt, .docx or .pdf file up to 500KB, or a web page by URL.
Pick a voice and shape the delivery
Play the samples, choose a voice, add pauses where the listener needs a breath, and set how any word is read with the pronunciation dictionary.
Generate and download
Export an MP3, a voice and music mix, or SRT captions.
What's free
Free plan
Everything you need to hear your script
- The Free plan costs $0.
- Every voice is included.
- Preview voices as often as you like.
- A free account gets 2,500 credits once, not every month. That is about 2,500 words of text to speech.
- Download your audio as an MP3.
- The Free plan is for personal and evaluation use. Paid plans add commercial rights.
Answers
Frequently asked questions
Yes. You can play any voice on this page before you sign up. The full library has 1,411 voices across 160 languages and dialects.
Write or import your Dutch script, choose a voice and press Generate. To download the MP3, create a free account: downloads work on the Free plan. You can also export a voice and music mix or SRT captions.
Yes. The Free plan costs $0 and includes every voice, with a one-time allowance of 2,500 credits, about 2,500 words. It is for personal and evaluation use.
Yes. Dutch has 8 male and 12 female voices. Use the gender filter above the voice list and try a few with your own first line.
Yes, on a paid plan: paid plans include commercial rights, and the Free plan is for personal and evaluation use only. Starter costs $5 for the first month, then $19 a month.
Preview the line first. If a number, date or abbreviation comes out wrong, write it the way it should be spoken, or add it to the pronunciation dictionary, which is on every plan. One entry fixes that word across the whole project.
Dutch, from the Netherlands. The voices use the pronunciation heard in the Randstad, including the harder g. Belgian Dutch, often called Flemish, has a softer g, a different melody and some words of its own, and Belgian listeners notice the difference. For an audience in Flanders, open the Belgian Dutch page in the list above.
Most Dutch ads, apps and webshops use je and jij, because the Netherlands favours an informal tone. Use u for government, healthcare, pensions and messages for older listeners. Some banks and insurers now use je as well. Whichever you choose, keep it consistent, including jouw or uw, so the narrator does not switch tone mid-script.
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